SO ENDS this first of two weekends featuring a summary of new ideas about evolution, that modify Darwin’s original proposal. Thomas Kuhn’s well accepted idea that science progresses by means of modifications of previous ideas, even large paradigm shifts, is everywhere; and no less true for the theory of evolution, born in an age when DNA and genes were not known. Modifications based on new data abound and tweak what still is one of the most important ideas in biology.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/aug/19/thomas-kuhn-structure-scientific-revolutions
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022