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“I have to say, you’re wrong. Natural selection is a universal principle, which applies to all living things, but it can take all sorts of forms. It exists even in the plant world, where it’s a matter of access to nutritious soil, to water, to sunlight … Man is an animal, as we know, but he’s not a prairie dog or an antelope. His dominance doesn’t

observational studies.

real and bogus arguments

the core of the explanation for the presence of a gene is always that it got itself replicated more than its rival genes.

takes on the debated issue of the autopoietic characterization of social systems

Science articles begin with a mini literature review:

much-maligned

enact regulations—but these, aside from restricting individual freedoms, lead to another predation, this time by the state, its agents, and their cronies.

The fundamental error being made by Lamarck has the same logic as inductivism. Both assume that new knowledge (adaptations and scientific theories respectively) is somehow already present in experience, or can be derived mechanically from experience. But the truth is always that knowledge must be first conjectured and then tested. That is what Darw