The Concept of Evolution
- 1 January 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Philosophy
- Vol. 40 (151) , 18-34
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031819100052426
Abstract
There appears to be a wide measure of agreement, both amongst biologists and others, that Darwin's theory of evolution marks a major breakthrough in the science of biology; Darwin has even been called ‘Biology's Newton’, the highest term of praise that could be bestowed on a scientist. A. G. N. Flew, considering the matter from a philosophical point of view, says: ‘Yet one of the most important of all scientific theories is that developed by Darwin in his Origin of Species. Covering the entire range of biological phenomena its scope is enormous. While if any scientific theory is interesting philosophically this one is.’ In spite of the testimony of both biologists and philosophers of science to the importance of the theory, it does not appear to play anything like the same role in biology as does Newton's theory in physics. For modern physics would beKeywords
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- Evolution Above the Species LevelPublished by Columbia University Press ,1959