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Ethics in Darwin's melancholy vision.

Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences - 1 Mar 2011

Brown Bryson

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Darwinian natural selection draws on Malthus' harsh vision of human society to explain how organisms come to be adapted to their environments. Natural selection produces the appearance of teleology, but requires only efficient causal processes: undirected, heritable variation combined with effects of the variations on survival and reproduction. This paper draws a sharp distinction between the resulting form of...

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PMID: 21300312
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2010.11.004

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