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Record W312176715 · doi:10.1177/003685040909200314

The Present Position of the Darwinian Theory

2009· review· en· W312176715 on OpenAlexaffabout
E. W. MacBride

Bibliographic record

VenueScience Progress · 2009
Typereview
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicEvolution and Science Education
Canadian institutionsRoyal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDarwinismPosition (finance)EpistemologyEvolutionary biologyBiologyPhilosophyEconomics

Abstract

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And there arose another king that knew not Joseph.''It must be admitted that the Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection has fallen upon evil days.Prominent literary men like G.K. Chesterton have allowed themselves to talk of the ''dead dogma of Darwinism''.Although the connotation of ''Darwinism'' in the minds of such emotional and inexact writers is somewhat obscure, nevertheless they reflect an impression which they have imbibed from scientific acquaintances, viz.that our views on many things connected with life have changed since Darwin's time, and that most of Darwin's arguments will no longer hold.They cannot be blamed for conceiving this idea, for to a hearer of the discussion on evolution which took place last September at the meeting of the British Association at Hull 1 , it must have seemed clear that many zoologists and botanists were inclined to deny that natural selection was the efficient agent in the formation of new species.Prof. Stanley Gardiner from the standpoint of zoology, and Prof. Johannsen on the botanical side, both emphasised the ''inadequacy of natural selection'', whilst if we turn to Dr. Willis's Age and Area -a book which really gave rise to the discussion -we find the statement (p.215): ''It is clear that it is no longer safe to consider that advantage to the species has had anything to do with the actual evolution of that species''.Most serious of all, if we refer to Dr. Bateson's address to the American Association for the Advancement of Science on the occasion of their Toronto meeting in 1921 2 , we find the statement: ''That particular and essential bit of the theory of evolution which is concerned with the origin and nature of species remains is concerned with the origin and nature of species remains utterly mysterious.We no longer feel as we used to do that the process of variation, now contemporaneously occurring, is the beginning Science Progress (2009), 92(3/4), 415-436 [1923 -24, XVIII, 76-96] www.scilet.com

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.043

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.027
Scholarly communication0.0070.012
Open science0.0030.004
Research integrity0.0070.013
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.072
GPT teacher head0.363
Teacher spread0.291 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2009
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