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    Alternatives to Darwinian evolution have been proposed by scholars investigating biology to explain signs of evolution and the relatedness of different...
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    variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce. Also called Darwinian theory, it originally included the broad concepts...
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    Darwin's writing, science had yet to develop modern theories of genetics. The union of traditional Darwinian evolution with subsequent discoveries in classical...
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  • who claims to have lost her position over a presentation Critical Thinking on Evolution that presented alternatives to Darwinian evolution. A senior professor...
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  • what they refer to as "Darwinian evolution". This statement did not profess outright disbelief in evolution, but expressed skepticism as to the ability of...
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    Dashavataras has also been interpreted to be reflective of modern Darwinian evolution, as a description of the evolution of consciousness. "Dashavatara" or...
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  • Meme (redirect from Evolution of an idea)
    meme may or may not need to provide any benefit to its host. Unlike genetic evolution, memetic evolution can show both Darwinian and Lamarckian traits....
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  • least to be of relatively minor importance. Four major alternatives to natural selection were in play in the 19th century: Theistic evolution, the belief...
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    opposition to the theory; a blank means the matter is apparently not discussed, not part of the theory. The various alternatives to Darwinian evolution by natural...
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    the canonical example of Darwinian evolution and evidence for natural selection used in standard textbooks. However, failure to replicate the experiment...
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    heritability in evolution that are not under the direct control of genes include the inheritance of cultural traits and symbiogenesis. From a neo-Darwinian perspective...
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  • similarities to the ideas of progressive creationism that God created "kinds" of animals sequentially. Regarding the embracing of Darwinian evolution, historian...
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  • disadvantage". Cultural evolution, in the Darwinian sense of variation and selective inheritance, could be said to trace back to Darwin himself. He argued...
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  • 2019 by Gene Levinson. In EEP, the scientific mechanism of Darwinian natural selection tends to preserve new, more complex entities that arise from interactions...
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  • "homo-brutalism". Other Reform rabbis who were more sympathetic to Darwinian conceptions of evolution were Kaufmann Kohler, Emil G. Hirsch, and Joseph Krauskopf...
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    agreed. Anaximander's hypothesis could be considered "evolution" in a sense, although not a Darwinian one. Empedocles argued that what we call birth and...
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    the primitive barbarian up to a Humboldt or a Darwin, who could do as he had a mind to." Sumner never fully embraced Darwinian ideas, and some contemporary...
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    skeptical of Darwinian evolution. This eclipse of Darwinism (in Julian Huxley's words) grew out of the weaknesses in Darwin's account, with respect to his view...
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  • Memetics (redirect from Memetic evolution)
    Memetics is a theory of the evolution of culture based on Darwinian principles with the meme as the unit of culture. The term "meme" was coined by biologist...
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  • ancestor as a product of evolution by Darwinian natural selection. Moisin's proposal to establish the commission also sought to form a Council of Public...
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    biology portal History of science portal Books portal A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution and Cooperation Ethology Evolutionary anthropology List of...
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  • Primordial soup (category Metaphors referring to food and drink)
    In his 1936 work, impregnated by a Darwinian thought that involved a slow and gradual evolution from the simple to the complex, Oparin proposed a heterotrophic...
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    and Walter M. Fitch (1993). "Punctuated equilibrium and positive Darwinian evolution in vesicular stomatitis virus." Proceedings of the National Academy...
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  • Wallis who introduced Alchian to the statistical work of Ronald Fisher. Fisher was one of the founders of the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis and influenced Alchian's...
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  • journals." Eldredge, Niles (1985). Time Frames: The Rethinking of Darwinian Evolution and the Theory of Punctuated Equilibria. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-49555-8...
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    Survival of the fittest (category Biological evolution)
    "Survival of the fittest" is a phrase that originated from Darwinian evolutionary theory as a way of describing the mechanism of natural selection. The...
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    resistance to infection. Handel and Ramagopalan commented that "epigenetics allows the peaceful co-existence of Darwinian and Lamarckian evolution." Joseph...
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    Mutationism is one of several alternatives to evolution by natural selection that have existed both before and after the publication of Charles Darwin's...
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  • and chemical processes are real and the modern neo-Darwinian population genetics approach to evolution is misguided. Lima-de-Faria emphasizes that the laws...
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  • Saltation (biology) (category Non-Darwinian evolution)
    that was significant early in the evolution of life, but in complex organisms gave way to the generally accepted Darwinian mechanisms. The geneticist Barbara...
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