January 2017 Environmental Evolution newsletter
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This newsletter discusses the need for a new theory of evolution in evolutionary biology that incorporates biological relativity and the research featured at the Royal Society meeting, New Trends in Evolution: biological, philosophical and social science perspectives. Biological relativity is a concept that Oxford Professor of Systems Biology and President of the International Union of […]
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- Used by people who call the work: Cosmic Evolution, Gaia Theory/Science-Based Systems Thinking
- Applies a deep time evolutionary perspective to: Agriculture, Art, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Government, Law, Other (the modern cultural zeitgeist), Religion/Spirituality, Social Justice
- Learning Stages: Adult Education, Higher Education, Lifelong, Secondary 9 - 12
- Type: Document
- Keywords: Denis Noble, Lynn Margulis, Barbara McClintock, Douglas Futuyama, Modern Synthesis, neo-Darwinism, symbiogenesis, natual genetic engineering, natural selection, Royal Society, New Trends in Evolution, West World, Cosmos: A Spacetime Journey, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Martin Brassier, the measurement of doubt
- Why I love this Resource: A discussion of Biology adopting the Theory of Relativity and balancing reductionism with systems thinking. Also discussed is Martin Brasier's conception of science as a unigue system for the measurement of doubt which employs relativity as a necessary metric. In what has been descrived as a "Post-Fact" world, it is necessary to understand what a fact in science is and what it is not.
- Link to Resource: Click here
- Posted By: James MacAllister
- Date Added: January 4, 2017
