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Darwin's Dangerous Idea

Evolution and the Meanings of Life

By Daniel C. Dennett

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| Paperback | 9780684824710

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In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Boston Globe calls "one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet," focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection, showing how Darwin's great idea transforms and illumContinue

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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

Evolutionary ideas appear in many places in Dennett's earlier writings; he is one of the few philosophers who really seems at home with them. In Darwin's Dangerous Idea he turns his attention directly to the idea of evolution by natural selection, tr ... (read full critics)

dannyreviews published on Wed, 25 Aug 2010

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Natural selection is best conceived of as a "substrate neutral algorithm." Seen in this way, it begins to act as a sort of "universal acid" whose unsettling implications cannot be contained. The book is uneven--the stuff about memes is unconvincing. But it was a worthwhile read for the concepts of s ... (continue)

Natural selection is best conceived of as a "substrate neutral algorithm." Seen in this way, it begins to act as a sort of "universal acid" whose unsettling implications cannot be contained. The book is uneven--the stuff about memes is unconvincing. But it was a worthwhile read for the concepts of skyhook and crane alone.

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