PHILOS 2F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Erasmus Darwin, Noam Chomsky, Language Acquisition

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHILOS 2F03
• Professor: Barry Allen

Document Summary

However, after a year he was unsatisfied with the species transformation theory. So he came up with a new theory within a 20 year time spa after careful research. Erasmus darwin and lamarck had no cause for their theory. The use inheritance notion explains why but now how: it explains how organisms are adapted without the design theory. Belief in evolution became the norm after one year of darwin publishing his book. Darwin replies with the first serious cause of evolution: he calls this mechanism natural selection . Natural selection is nature doing artificial selection. Highly selective breeding (ie. dogs, cattles, fruit trees) Natural selection favours some species over others. Natural selection over many years will create the multitudes of species. It is like breeding but it is unlike breeding because there is no intelligence. There is always more than one solution. There is not one change that is progressive and better.