Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the term natural selection as coined by Charles
Darwin in his book “On the Origin of Species” in 1859. It reviews the precise scope and role …

The Evolution of Darwinism'is a double entendre that indicates the overall plan of Timothy
Shanahan's new book. On the one hand, Shanahan (2004) sets out to show how debates …

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The development of evolutionary biology since 1858 is one of the great intellectual
achievements of science. The living world presents science with two major challenges: how …

From its inception Darwinian evolutionary biology has been seen as having a problematic
relationship of fact and theory. While the forging of the modern evolutionary synthesis …

Darwin's explanation of biological speciation in terms of variation and natural selection has
revolutionised biological thought. However, while his principle of natural selection, the …

Nature-nurture is unfit to account for the seamless co-determination of behavior by biological
evolution and culture. The environment is the shaping causal factor both in evolutionary …

Charles Darwin is well known as having popularized the concept of natural selection.
Despite widespread teaching of the topic in biology related contexts, it is actually …

Everything evolves but the patterns are displayed at the evolutionary timescale and not
intuitively evident or visible; whereas visible changes are at the dynamic timescale but they …

Evolutionary theory has proven generally successful in predicting phenotypic changes over
one or a few generations of natural or artificial selection, but fails to predict evolutionary …