A Brief History of Evolution

I present in this paper a non-reductionist framework of eight nested modes of evolution that have successively emerged to organize the reproduction of all organisms, from the blue-green algae to our societies. The processes of biological, "Darwinian" evolution are those of drift during rep...

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Main Author: Naccache, Albert F. H. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley 1999
In: History and theory
Year: 1999, Volume: 38, Issue: 4, Pages: 10-32
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