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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life is a 1995 book by the philosopher Daniel Dennett, in which the author looks at some of the repercussions of Darwinian theory. The crux of the argument is that, whether or not Darwin's theories are overturned, there is no going back from the dangerous idea that design (purpose or what ...
The series was accompanied by a book by the popular science writer Carl Zimmer Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea. [1] An extensive website provides teaching resources for each episode's material, including "The Mating Game", further looks at Charles Darwin, and an interactive history of speciation in the invented "pollencreeper" birds.
In Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Dennett wrote that evolution can account for the origin of morality. He rejected the idea that morality being natural to us implies that we should take a skeptical position regarding ethics, noting that what is fallacious in the naturalistic fallacy is not to support values per se, but rather to rush from facts to ...
Arrests after Charles Darwin grave spray-painted January 13, 2025 at 9:57 AM Two women have been arrested after climate protesters spray-painted over the grave of Charles Darwin inside Westminster ...
Philosopher Daniel Dennett develops memetics extensively, notably in his books Darwin's Dangerous Idea, [4] and From Bacteria to Bach and Back. [5] He describes the units of memes as "the smallest elements that replicate themselves with reliability and fecundity," [6] and claims that "Human consciousness is itself a huge complex of memes."
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. Daniel Dennett (1995). Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Daniel Dennett (2003). Freedom Evolves. Jared Diamond (1991). The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal ; Theodosius Dobzhansky (1937; 2nd ed 1941; 3rd ed 1951). Genetics and the Origin of Species.
The philosopher of mind Daniel Dennett, in his 1995 book Darwin's Dangerous Idea, developed the idea of a Darwinian process, involving variation, selection and retention, as a generic algorithm that is substrate-neutral and could be applied to many fields of knowledge outside of biology. He described the idea of natural selection as a ...
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