Evolving Complexity: Build Your Own Beagle

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Build Your Own Beagle

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“The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity”

Richard Dawkins

"The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some people suspended their search for absolute truth and began instead to ask how things worked, modern science was born. Curiously, it was by abandoning the search for absolute truth that science began to make progress, opening the material universe to human exploration. "

Heinz Pagels

"As the main claim of this book [Full House], I do not deny the phenomenon of increased complexity in life's history but I subject this conclusion to two restrictions that undermine its traditional hegemony as evolution's defining feature. First, the phenomenon exists only in the pitifully limited and restricted sense of a few species extending the small right tail of a bell curve with an ever-constant mode at bacterial complexity and not as a pervasive feature in the history of most lineages. Second, this restricted phenomenon arises as an incidental consequence [...] of causes that include no mechanism for progress or increasing complexity in their main actions."

Stephen Jay Gould

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Build Your Own Beagle

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