Alternatives to Darwinian evolution have been proposed by scholars investigating biology to explain signs of evolution and the relatedness of different...

what they refer to as "Darwinian evolution". This statement did not profess outright disbelief in evolution, but expressed skepticism as to the ability of...

variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce. Also called Darwinian theory, it originally included the broad concepts...

Darwin's writing, science had yet to develop modern theories of genetics. The union of traditional Darwinian evolution with subsequent discoveries in classical...

the canonical example of Darwinian evolution and evidence for natural selection used in standard textbooks. However, failure to replicate the experiment...

resistance to infection. Handel and Romagopalan commented that "epigenetics allows the peaceful co-existence of Darwinian and Lamarckian evolution." Joseph...

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...

theory, or Darwinian metaphysics, is a variety of approaches that extend the theory of Darwinism beyond its original domain of biological evolution on Earth...

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...

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...

disadvantage". Cultural evolution, in the Darwinian sense of variation and selective inheritance, could be said to trace back to Darwin himself. He argued...

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...

structuralism is a school of biological thought that objects to an exclusively Darwinian or adaptationist explanation of natural selection such as is...

2019 by Gene Levinson. In EEP, the scientific mechanism of Darwinian natural selection tends to preserve new, more complex entities that arise from interactions...

say "Dawkins' basic theory of the gene being the object of evolution is totally non-Darwinian." Gould also addressed the issue of selfish genes in his essay...

by natural selection (see convergent evolution) or human investigation. The first chapter of part II, "Darwinian Thinking in Biology", asserts that life...

Mutationism is one of several alternatives to evolution by natural selection that have existed both before and after the publication of Charles Darwin's...

least to be of relatively minor importance. Four major alternatives to natural selection were in play in the 19th century: Theistic evolution, the belief...

similarities to the ideas of progressive creationism that God created "kinds" of animals sequentially. Regarding the embracing of Darwinian evolution, historian...

brought together the principles of Mendelian inheritance with Darwinian principles of evolution to form the field of genetics known as the modern evolutionary...

theory of "unilinear evolution." Steward rejected the 19th-century notion of progress, and instead called attention to the Darwinian notion of "adaptation"...

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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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...

his own writings to produce an influential book, Darwiniana (1876). These essays argued for a conciliation between Darwinian evolution and the tenets of...

fitness more common over time, resulting in Darwinian evolution. The term "Darwinian fitness" can be used to make clear the distinction with physical fitness...

The evolution of biological complexity is one important outcome of the process of evolution. Evolution has produced some remarkably complex organisms –...

agreed. Anaximander's hypothesis could be considered "evolution" in a sense, although not a Darwinian one. Empedocles argued that what we call birth and...

Darwinian anthropology describes an approach to anthropological analysis which employs various theories from Darwinian evolutionary biology. Whilst there...

Evolutionary medicine or Darwinian medicine is the application of modern evolutionary theory to understanding health and disease. Modern biomedical research...