Reconsidering the logical structure of the theory of natural selection
Natural selection has been criticized as a tautology. This would be a major problem for evolutionary biology, if true, because tautological statements can't be falsified and, therefore, can't be scientific. There is merit to this critique insofar as the theory of natural selection is indee...
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Taylor & Francis
2014
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4594354/ |