by admin | Apr 18, 2019 | Walsh Group
Walsh, D. M. Darwin’s discovery of descent with modification was inaugurated by a shift in perspective that Ernst Mayr (1975) has dubbed “population thinking.” Darwin realized that the explanation of the fit and diversity of organic form should be approached as a...
by admin | Jul 1, 2018 | Walsh Group
Walsh, D. M. Organisms are like nothing else in the natural world. They are agents. Methodological vitalism is a view according to which the difference that organisms make to the natural world cannot be captured wholly if we treat them as mere objects. Understanding...
by admin | Jun 1, 2017 | Walsh Group
Walsh, D. M. Jacques Monod’s Chance and Necessity poses a paradox for modern biology: Organisms both must be and cannot be purposive systems. To resolve the paradox we must explain purpose by appeals to invariance or invariance by appeal to purpose. The methodology of...
by admin | Nov 1, 2015 | Walsh Group
Walsh, D. M. The central insight of Darwin’s Origin of Species is that evolution is an ecological phenomenon, arising from the activities of organisms in the ‘struggle for life’. By contrast, the Modern Synthesis theory of evolution, which rose to...
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