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Kauffman's ‘origins of order’. Hot extensions of neo-darwinism

✍ Scribed by Peter Schuster

Book ID: 101713313
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1995
Tongue: English
Weight: 317 KB
Volume: 17
Category: Article
ISSN: 0265-9247
DOI: 10.1002/bies.950170413

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✦ Synopsis

Darwin's natural selection and Mendelian genetics, united in the neo-Darwinian synthetic theory of evolution, are the basis of our current understanding of biology. Neo-Darwinism, although extremely successful and accepted by most scientists, is criticized by several biologists, among them the world-famous author of this new comprehensive monograph, because of its central belief in adaptive selection as the universal and exclusive force shaping everything we see in nature. The aim of Stuart Kauffman in his

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