Why Darwin Still Matters : A plea for the relevance of historyBorrello, Mark E
and modern-day New World monkeys are ‘monkeys’, then it stands to reason any species descended from their most recent common ancestor must also be ‘a monkey’. But, as we have seen, that includes us. In which case, not only did we humans evolve from monkeys, butwe still are monkeys...
In 1880, “Darwin’s Bulldog” Thomas Henry Huxley wrote, “The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.” Kno...
In addition, the key to survival are established processes and the quality of management, and most importantly – the ability to quickly change. Here suits the phrase of old man Darwin “It is not the strongest of the species that survives… it is the one most adaptable to change.” After...
“Darwin democratized understanding. When someone has a monopoly on God, they have this power over you, explaining something to you that you have to accept on faith. Darwin said, ‘No, this is something we can understand.’ Where we come from and who we are is subject to explanation rathe...
Why Are We Still Talking About Darwin?Hank Campbell
The Virginia Quarterly Review - Most Beautiful and Most Wonderful : Why Darwin Is Still RightGenoways, Ted
Loesberg, J. (2007). Kant, Hume, Darwin, and Design: Why Intelligent Design Wasn´t Science Before Darwin and Still Isn’t. Philosophical Forum 38, 95–123.Loesberg, J (2007) Kant, Hume, Darwin, and design: Why intelligent design wasn’t science before Darwin and still isn’t. ...
It was Charles Darwin who first noted that it is the choosy peahen who plays a crucial role in the evolution of this extravagant sexual display. "We may conclude that ... those males which are best able by their various charms to please or excite the female, are under ordinary ...
Roberts, Sam