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The Evolution of Evolutionary Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2010

Patrick Bateson
Patrick Bateson*
Affiliation:
Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB23 8AA, UK. Email: ppgb@cam.ac.uk
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Abstract

Charles Darwin has had an extraordinary impact on many aspects of human affairs apart from revolutionizing biology. On the 200th anniversary of his birth, the Cambridge Darwin Festival in July 2009 celebrated these contributions to the humanities, philosophy and religion and the approach to medicine, economics and the social sciences. He is a man to revere. It is no discredit to him that the science of evolutionary biology should continue to evolve. In this article I shall consider some of the ways in which this has happened since his day.

Type
Focus: Evolution
Information
European Review , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , July 2010 , pp. 287 - 296
Copyright
Copyright © Academia Europaea 2010

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