Segnalo in ordine sparso recenti e nuove pubblicazioni su Darwin e l'evoluzione
Lewens, Tim. Darwinism and Metaphysics. Metascience, Volume 16, Number 1, April 2007, pp. 61-69
Oldroyd, David. Darwin's Geology: The End of the Darwin Industry? Metascience, Volume 16, Number 1, April 2007, pp. 25-50 Harman, Oren Solomon. Powerful Intuitions: Re-reading Nature versus Nurture with Charles Darwin and Clifford Geertz. SCIENCE IN CONTEXT , 20(1):49-70 2007
Doolittle, W. Ford, Bapteste, Eric. Pattern pluralism and the Tree of Life hypothesis. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA , 104(7):2043-2049, 2007 Darwin claimed that a unique inclusively hierarchical pattern of relationships between all organisms based on their similarities and differences [the Tree of Life (TOL)] was a fact of nature, for which evolution, and in particular a branching process of descent with modification, was the explanation. However, there is no independent evidence that the natural order is an inclusive hierarchy, and incorporation of prokaryotes into the TOL is especially problematic. The only data sets from which we might construct a universal hierarchy including prokaryotes, the sequences of genes, often disagree and can seldom be proven to agree. Hierarchical structure can always be imposed on or extracted from such data sets by algorithms designed to do so, but at its base the universal TOL rests on an unproven assumption about pattern that, given what we know about process, is unlikely to be broadly true. This is not to say that similarities and differences between organisms are not to be accounted for by evolutionary mechanisms, but descent with modification is only one of these mechanisms, and a single tree-like pattern is not the necessary (or expected) result of their collective operation. Pattern pluralism (the recognition that different evolutionary models and representations of relationships will be appropriate, and true, for different taxa or at different scales or for different purposes) is an attractive alternative to the quixotic pursuit of a single true TOL.
Pigliucci, Massimo. Evolutionary Epistemology, Anyone? THE SKEPTICAL INQUIRER , 31(1):23 2007
Dixon, B. Darwinism and Human Dignity. ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES, 2007, VOL 16; NUMB 1, pages 23-42
Parker, J. S. THE ORIGIN OF THE `ORIGIN': WHAT HENSLOW TAUGHT DARWIN. TRANSACTIONS- LEICESTER LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 2006, VOL 100, pages 38-40
JABLONSKI, D. SCALE AND HIERARCHY IN MACROEVOLUTION. PALAEONTOLOGY, 2007, VOL 50; NUMBER 1, pages 87-109 Scale and hierarchy must be incorporated into any conceptual framework for the study of macroevolution, i.e. evolution above the species level. Expansion of temporal and spatial scales reveals evolutionary patterns and processes that are virtually inaccessible to, and unpredictable from, short-term, localized observations. These larger-scale phenomena range from evolutionary stasis at the species level and the mosaic assembly of complex morphologies in ancestral forms to the non-random distribution in time and space of the origin of major evolutionary novelties, as exemplified by the Cambrian explosion and post-extinction recoveries of metazoans, and the preferential origin of major marine groups in onshore environments and tropical waters............
James Moore. R. A. Fisher: a faith fit for eugenics. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Volume 38, Issue 1, March 2007, Pages 110-135
Angela N.H. Creager. Adaptation or selection? Old issues and new stakes in the postwar debates over bacterial drug resistance. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Volume 38, Issue 1, March 2007, Pages 159-190Oliver J. Rando and Kevin J. Verstrepen. Timescales of Genetic and Epigenetic Inheritance. Cell, Volume 128, Issue 4, 23 February 2007, Pages 655-668L.P. Bignold. Variation, "evolution", immortality and genetic instabilities in tumour cells. Cancer Letters, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 23 January 2007
Paolo Coccia
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