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Beyond Natural Selection

By Wesson , Robert G.

Book information

Publisher
MIT Press
Year
1991
ISBN
0-262-23161-1
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2665840 bytes)
Pages
398\398
Topic
Biology
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2015-06-01 15:00:40

Description

in this broad and highly readable inquiry, Robert Wesson proposes an approach to evolution that is more in harmony with modern science than Darwinism or neoDarwinism. He emphasizes the importance for evolution of inner direction and the self-organizing capacities of life, a view that is better able to account for the chaotic nature of the evolutionary process and the inherent propensity of complex dynamic systems to grow more complex with time. Many examples of plants and animals support this idea, and Wesson includes both carefully documented scientific facts and intriguing anecdotes about the odd aberrations in natural selection.

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