Concept

Neo-Darwinism

Overview

the current paradigm in evolutionary biology

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For the successive changes in modes of life pursued by successive ancestral races, can have had no regularity of sequence. In some cases they must have been more numerous than in others; in some cases they must have been greater in degree than in others; in some cases they must have been to simpler modes, in some cases to more complex…
Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Biology, Volume 1
Close in meaning to Neo-Darwinism; the term itself is not named.
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"Utility" in respect of the acceleration of the speed of evolution, is a different kind of "utility" from that which is understood to mean the greatest possible stability and staying power of the evolved creature. "Useful" in the sense of Darwinian biology means: that which favours a thing in its struggle with others. But in my opinion the _feeling of being surcharged,_ the feeling accompanying an _increase in…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power
States what Neo-Darwinism is.
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It was said that it has now become extremely difficult to recover the view of the world which universally obtained in Europe till the seventeenth century. Yet after all we need only recur to the science of plants and animals as it was before Darwin and to the ideas which even now are dominant in moral and political matters to find the older order of conceptions in full possession of the popular mind. Until the dogma…
John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy
Close in meaning to Neo-Darwinism; the term itself is not named.
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Philosophers who discussed Neo-Darwinism

Richard Dawkins

Related ideas

Place in the tradition

Part of American philosophy.

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