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PROGRESS TOWARDS PERFECTION. "As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection." (Darwin). https://lnkd.in/dWKSysJ View in LinkedIn

SELECTIVE magical thinking has bred a mountain of erroneous publications whose primary motivation is to see the hand of god in nature. https://lnkd.in/dffiSnf View in LinkedIn

BREAK WITH THE PAST. "Perfection and progress were abstractions that had no place in Darwin's pragmatic and relativistic scheme." Yet there were many nods towards the older (and religious) viewpoint. https://lnkd.in/dqgy8Hd View in LinkedIn

MAGICAL THINKING. "Fabicconi numbers in nature, selective and seductive.” https://lnkd.in/dHb3uBz View in LinkedIn

PREVAILING PERFECTION VIEW. "The concept of perfection in the natural world was integral to pre-Darwinian rationalizations of nature as evidence of the designing hand of a providential Creator." https://lnkd.in/dqgy8Hd View in LinkedIn

TRANSCENDENTALIST VIEW. "Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole." (Ralph Waldo Emerson). https://lnkd.in/dXaHRqi View in LinkedIn

PERFECT FITNESS. "We speak of the perfection of nature but also, and even more frequently, of that of human productions, which we customarily call perfect when they are entirely in accord with the purpose for which they were produced." https://lnkd.in/dGdFrHS View in LinkedIn

PREVAILING VIEW. "On the uniformity and perfection of nature." (Philip Freneau,1815). https://lnkd.in/dKQSbZr View in LinkedIn

SELECTION OF THE PERFECT. "On the other hand, very many enzymes appear not to be involved in metabolic control...and for these we can ask to what extent the selective pressures of evolution have produced the perfect catalyst....In this Account we shall suggest one measure of perfection." http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ar50112a001 View in LinkedIn

CONFLICTED PERFECTION. "For some enzymes, there is going to be a conflict between changes that maximize catalytic effectiveness and changes that optimize control, and for these enzymes we may expect that some catalytic power has been sacrificed to the higher good of metabolic control." http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ar50112a001 View in LinkedIn