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Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution

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"The fish's streamlined shape reveals functional knowledge of the physical properties of water.... The deadly effectiveness of the cobra's venom shows useful knowledge of the physiology of its prey.... Indeed, knowledge itself may be broadly conceived as the fit of some aspect of an organism to some aspect of its environment, whether it be the fit of the butterfly's long siphon of a mouth to theflowers from which it feeds or the fit of the astrophysicist's theories to the structure of the universe.... But how did such remarkable instances of fit arise? How did the animate world obtain its impressive knowledge of its surroundings? And how do organismscontinue to acquire knowledge and thereby increase their fit during their lifetimes?"

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Cambridge : The MIT Press., 1997

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9780262316040

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Natural selection.

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By Gary A. Cziko

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/7263.001.0001

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