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Great point and you said it well. Darwin was much the same, many of the ideas he discusses were already out there, but he brought them together in a novel, unit
by loufe 4y ago
Great point and you said it well. Darwin was much the same, many of the ideas he discusses were already out there, but he brought them together in a novel, united, coherent, and compelling way that really made the idea of evolution stand on its own feet.
- zmgsabst 4y agoMost great theories connect existing concepts: Darwin connected the specialization of finches to two bodies of existing work — animal husbandry and the nest hierarchy of biology, by explaining they’re both outcomes of reproductive selection. Einstein connected the idea of Galilean relativity to Maxwell’s equations to explain why Michelson-Morley behaves how it does.
- evv555 4y ago>nest hierarchy of biology Which itself is a derivative of the "great chain of being" ontology which tried to explain the continuous gradation of structures in the world. Ideas like "missing link" appear within this worldview before Darwin's theory[1]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_chain_of_being#Scala_Naturae_in_evolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_chain_of_being#Scala_Nat...