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Qualitative differences between naïve and scientific theories of evolution.

Cognitive psychology - 1 Mar 2006

Shtulman Andrew

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Philosophers of biology have long argued that Darwin's theory of evolution was qualitatively different from all earlier theories of evolution. Whereas Darwin's predecessors and contemporaries explained adaptation as the transformation of a species' "essence," Darwin explained adaptation as the selective propagation of randomly occurring mutations within a population. The present study explored the possibility of...

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PMID: 16337619
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2005.10.001

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