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Steven Rose's alternative to ultra-Darwinism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

David L. Hull
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 d-hull@nwu.edu

Abstract

Stephen Rose's formulation of evolutionary theory is too scattered and impressionistic to serve as a genuine alternative to ultra- Darwinism. In addition, he has muddied a distinction that is crucial to our understanding of evolutionary phenomenona – the distinction between homologies and homoplasies.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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