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unusual facts about Evolutionary Theory



Galápagos syndrome

The term is a reference to similar phenomena Charles Darwin encountered in the Galápagos Islands, with its isolated flora and fauna, which were key observations in the development of Evolutionary Theory.

History of invertebrate paleozoology

The provocative Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844 to 1853) by then-anonymous Robert Chambers, Alfred Russel Wallace's joint essay (1858) with Charles Darwin, and Darwin's Origin of Species (1859 to 1872) popularized the evolutionary theories of natural selection.


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Blood type diet

The evolutionary theory of blood groups used by D'Adamo stems from work by William C. Boyd, an immunochemist and blood type anthropologist who made a worldwide survey of the distribution of blood groups.

Evolutionary theory and the political left

Others on the left such as Australian bioethicist Peter Singer in A Darwinian Left have embraced modern evolutionary theory but reach different political and economic lessons than more conservative observers.

Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think

Alan Grafen – The Intellectual Contribution of The Selfish Gene to Evolutionary Theory

The Trouble with Atheism

Liddle interviews the intelligent design supporter Steve Fuller, a philosopher, who argues that evolution is the only "scientifically credible basis" for atheism, and anthropologist Jeffrey H. Schwartz, who argues that evolutionary theory cannot account for novelties.

Unit of selection

Elisabeth Lloyd's book The Structure and Confirmation of Evolutionary Theory provides a basic philosophical introduction to the debate.

Elisabeth Lloyd (1988) The Structure and Confirmation of Evolutionary Theory, Greenwood Press (Reprinted Princeton University Press, 1994 ISBN 0-691-00046-8).

Sober, Elliott (1984; 1993) The Nature of Selection: Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus.