BIOL 304 Study Guide - Giant African Land Snail, Vertebral Column, Phylotype

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The uniformity of life speciation & extinction: an introduction to evolutionary theory, lines of evidence. It is emergent: there is something special in organisms beyond physical reduction. In biology, arrows will point up towards historical/selective conditions which formed the organism. once life starts, we encounter an emergence than we cannot deduce from basic theory: a bat is both, epistemologically emergent. we cannot deduce a bat from particle physics: ontologically emergent. a bat is also a real entity with causal powers and purpose: once a bat arises from selective and unique historical conditions, it has its own place/purpose in the world. Uniformity of life: living organisms share a narrow range of materials and processes, watchmaker analogy, people wanted to debate/prove the existence of god, paley describes going out & discovering an object. find a stone, think nothing of it.

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