This book contests the general view that natural selection constitutes the explanatory core of
evolutionary biology. It invites the reader to consider an alternative view which favors a more …

This Introduction raises a number of interpretative difficulties facing the standard view of the
development of evolutionary biology. It challenges the central tenet of this view, the claim …

As Darwin originally conceived it, natural selection not only chose features that, in
retrospect, would allow those with them to be better adapted to their immediate …

This is the second of a two-part essay on the history of debates concerning the creativity of
natural selection, from Darwin through the evolutionary synthesis and up to the present. In …

Less than 450 years ago, all European scholars believed that the Earth was at the center of
a Universe that was at most a few million miles in extent, and that the planets, sun, and stars …

This is the first of a two-part essay on the history of debates concerning the creativity of
natural selection, from Darwin through the evolutionary synthesis and up to the present …

The classical theory of descent with modification by means of natural selection had no
mother, but did have two English fathers, Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and Alfred Russel …

It is a widely accepted view that Charles Darwin's theory of biological evolution is founded
on the notion of adaptation, a creative evolutionary process driven by natural selection and …

No other scientific theory has had as tremendous an impact on our understanding of the
world as Darwin's theory as outlined in his Origin of Species, yet from the very beginning the …

Since Darwin's time we have known that natural selection, acting upon variations, is the key
to understanding biological evolution. After passing through the filter of natural selection …