Seven principles to rule them all: E. Coen: Cells to Civilizations. Princeton University Press, 2012, 360 pp, $29.95, ISBN: 9780691149677 [Book Review]

Biology and Philosophy 28 (4):683-692 (2013)
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Coen offers a unified explanation of natural selection, development, learning and cultural change, based on seven fundamental principles: population variation, persistence, reinforcement, competition, cooperation, combinatorial richness and recurrence. I discuss whether all seven principles are justified, successfully fit the four processes, encompass life processes only, and have any strong explanatory import. I find each of these claims doubtful

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