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It was a new kind of evolution – we could call it idea evolution.
His central idea — evolution by means of natural selection — was in some sense the product of his time, as Darwin well knew.
But of all courtroom film scenes, among the most passionate is Spencer Tracy's defence of an idea – evolution – in 1960's Inherit the Wind.
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The point of this historical digression is to illustrate the conceptual and historical decoupling of Darwin's two "big ideas"—evolution (common ancestry) and the mechanism of natural selection.
Thinking of plants at multiple scales requires understanding of core ideas (evolution and ecology), cross-disciplinary concepts (matter and energy), and use of science practices (models, arguments, and cooperative work).
These days it seems that everyone has ideas about evolution, ideas that range from calling it a hoax to anointing evolution as directly responsible for everything human, including religion.
Heterochronic change in developmental patterning is a central idea linking evolution and development.
But the very idea of evolution is that nature has no "ends": evolution is purposeless and without design.
Why is the idea of evolution so hard for many people to accept as integral to reality? Isn't evolution simply "change" by another name?
The big idea was evolution, but, while Darwin applied it to species change, speculating about society and culture only with reluctance, Spencer saw evolution working everywhere.
He had no clear idea of evolution itself.
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