RE: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
March 29, 2021 at 2:58 pm
(This post was last modified: March 29, 2021 at 2:58 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(March 29, 2021 at 2:03 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: So how would you, for example, keep Lamarckism alive with revisions?
I'm not sure. I suppose you could shrink or shift it's scope and application. Gould apperantly viewed social learning as a form of Lamarckism. So we could change the theories focus from information that is inherited reproductively, to information that is inherited behaviorally.
Ptolomy's epicycles are a better illustration here. The insertion of epicycles was a revision made to geocentrism that brought it into harmony with observation, while maintaining it's central framework alive. I don't know what the epicycles of Lamarckism could be.