Evolutionary Progress from Darwin to Dawkins
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1999
Abstract
Is evolution 'progressive'? Biologists have been deeply divided in their answers to this question for over a century and a half. Darwin addressed the question in On the Origin of Species, prominent evolutionists debated the issue again in the middle decades of this century, and the issue has attracted renewed attention recently. Remarkably, the seeds of a solution to the problem may lie in Darwin's earliest private reflections on simplicity, complexity and the evolution of life.
Original Publication Citation
Shanahan, Timothy. "Evolutionary Progress from Darwin to Dawkins," Endeavour, Volume 23, Number 4, December 1999, pp. 171-174. DOI: 10.1016/s0160-9327(99)80041-6
Digital Commons @ LMU & LLS Citation
Shanahan, Timothy, "Evolutionary Progress from Darwin to Dawkins" (1999). Philosophy Faculty Works. 243.
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/phil_fac/243
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