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According to Darwin's theory, don't organisms evolve simply in order to adapt (by natural selection) to their environment? Where did this belief in growing comp
by nsns 11y ago
According to Darwin's theory, don't organisms evolve simply in order to adapt (by natural selection) to their environment?
Where did this belief in growing complexity come from?
(Could it be perhaps just a crude reflection of the progressivist ethos of Modernity?)
- programnature 11y agoat least 2 forces come to mind - 1. Humans want to believe they are special in some way 2. Theory of evolution is under "selective pressure" to explain complexity since the watchmaker analogy
- igouy 11y agoSee paragraph 2 in the article.