Evolution Category
Thinking about Evolution – Early Evolutionism and Darwinism
Posted on June 11, 2013 Leave a Comment
A post in April discussed the connection between the “revolution” in biology and its often neglected metaphysical underpinnings. In this post I want to briefly discuss the development of early theories of evolutionism and the full implications of Darwinism. Following on from the impact of geological and paleontological discoveries in the early nineteenth century, evolutionary […]
A Prolegomena to A History of Evolution: Taking Biology from Metaphysics
Posted on April 24, 2013 1 Comment
A little learning is a dang’rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. Fir’d at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts, While from the bounded level of our mind Short views […]