Darwin escreveu o 'Origem das Espécies' ao contrário?

Did Darwin write the Origin backwards?

Elliott Sober,1

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Philosophy Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706

Abstract

After clarifying how Darwin understood natural selection and common ancestry, I consider how the two concepts are related in his theory. I argue that common ancestry has evidential priority. Arguments about natural selection often make use of the assumption of common ancestry, whereas arguments for common ancestry do not require the assumption that natural selection has been at work. In fact, Darwin held that the key evidence for common ancestry comes from characters whose evolution is not caused by natural selection. This raises the question of why Darwin puts natural selection first and foremost in the Origin.

common ancestry evidence likelihood natural selection

Footnotes

1E-mail: ersober@wisc.edu

Author contributions: E.S. designed research, performed research, and wrote the paper.

The author declares no conflict of interest.

This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.

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Leia um artigo crítico ao "Princípio de Darwin" proposto por Sober aqui.

A tática mais recente da Nomenklatura científica (em descompasso com Darwin) é tentar cooptar os crentes de subjetividades religiosas com um discurso de total compatibilidade das teses transformistas de Darwin e seus relatos sagrados de criação.