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Part IV: THE DARWINIAN LEGACY, 150 YEARS LATER
Pages 263-266

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From page 263...
... several authors in this concluding part of the ile iii Proceedings scrutinize these writings to illuminate Darwin's thought processes and thereby better appreciate and contextualize his scientific legacy. in Chapter 13, Francisco Ayala describes a fundamental discrepancy between Darwin's scientific methodology and how Darwin portrayed his methods to the general public.
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From page 264...
... The qualified yes comes from the realization that the third question is somewhat philosophical; the answer depends in part on whether to interpret major transformations of thought as continuous and gradual, or discontinuous and abrupt. ruse discusses philosophical nuances of his own position on these issues.
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From page 265...
... in all the achievements of creative skill." Dennett likens Darwin's strange inversion of reasoning to another such profound inversion of reasoning, this time by Alan Turing in the physical sciences. in the 1930s, Turing argued that it would be possible to design exquisite calculating machines [such as modern computers]
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From page 266...
... 10, 2009) , entitled "Darwinism must die so that evolution may live." our intent in the sackler Colloquium and in this book has not been to idolize Charles Darwin, but rather to celebrate the field of evolutionary biology that he played such an important role in developing nearly 2 centuries ago.
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