A Non-Newtonian Newtonian Model of Evolution: The ZFEL View.
Recently philosophers of biology have argued over whether or not Newtonian mechanics provides a useful analogy for thinking about evolutionary theory. For philosophers, the canonical presentation of this analogy is Sober's. Matthen and Ariew and Walsh, Lewins, and Ariew argue that this analogy is de...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 77; no. 5; pp. 702 - 716 |
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