Understanding substantial modifications of worldviews:

BIOS, bios, life.

1 periods | 2 roots of change | 3 selection | 4 argument | 5 environment | 6 humanity | 7 genes | 8 quantum

What is life's origin?

Mayr | Thomas | Wilson | Hardin | Darwin | Margulis | Colinvaux | Gell-Mann | Steingraber | Tattersall | Carr | Keller | Watson

     
 

 

 

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"The dimensions of existence"
 
     

 

1. "Historical periods are dominated by distinct sets of ideas, widespread practices, and prevailing behaviors, which taken together form a well recognized and identifiable Zeitgeist."

The mistakes about Darwin's ideas.

The anomalies that eroded confidence in a one-time creation of all life.

     
 
 
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The origins of humans.
To hold eternity in your two hands.
Ammonite, Devonian fossil.
     

 

2. Roots of intellectual change

Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882), Victorian naturalist.

On the Origin of Species (1859)

Some early evolutionary speculations (1830s)

 

1 periods | 2 roots of change | 3 selection | 4 argument | 5 environment | 6 humanity | 7 genes | 8 quantum

3. The Significance of the Darwinian Revolution

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Charles Robert Darwin's signature.

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The voyage of the Beagle exposed Darwin for three years to life's anomalies of South America and the world.

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While Darwin contemplated the outcomes of artificial selection on horses, pigeons, roses, and livestock, he also by analogy he conceived of nature selecting for slight changes in form and function over time as subsequent generations varied ever so slightly but definitively from their parents.

4. One Long Argument, Ernst Mayr

      1. World view
      2. Natural history and natural selection
      3. The importance of the shift in perspectives
      4. How does hard versus soft inheritance differ?
      5. New synthesis

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1 periods | 2 roots of change | 3 selection | 4 argument | 5 environment | 6 humanity | 7 genes | 8 quantum

5. The Environment as arbiter, stage or collaborator?

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1 periods | 2 roots of change | 3 selection | 4 argument | 5 environment | 6 humanity | 7 genes | 8 quantum

 

6. The human place in the natural order.

            1. Ecology
            2. Ethology
            3. Evolution
            4. Human Genome

7. Genetics dna

 

1 periods | 2 roots of change | 3 selection | 4 argument | 5 environment | 6 humanity | 7 genes | 8 quantum

8. The impossibility of quantum relativity and quantum biology?

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1 periods | 2 roots of change | 3 selection | 4 argument | 5 environment | 6 humanity | 7 genes | 8 quantum

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