Contemporary Perspectives on the Meaning, Roles, and Implications of Chance in Evolution

ROFFÉ, ARIEL JONATHAN

SCIENCE & EDUCATION (DORDRECHT)

SPRINGER

Año: 2018 vol. 27 p. 1003 - 1016

0926-7220

Since Darwin?s time, and especially since the modern synthesis in the first half of the twentieth century, researchers have recognized that chance plays some role in evolution. Just which role, what its relative importance is as an evolutionary factor and what its presence implies for our broader conception of the natural world have been matters of extensive empirical and conceptual debate.