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  What Darwin Got Wrong (Hardback) By (author) Jerry Fodor, By (author) Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini

  

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  Short Description for What Darwin Got WrongIn this provocative, enlightening, and very entertaining book, [the authors] argue that natural selection cannot explain how evolution occurs. This argument will annoy a lot of important people, both for its conclusion and for the evident delight the authors display in getting to it.--Norbert Hornstein, University of Maryland.
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  • Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
  • Published: 16 February 2010
  • Format: Hardback 264 pages
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  • Categories: Evolution
  • ISBN 13: 9780374288792 ISBN 10: 0374288798
  • Sales rank: 658,373

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Full description for What Darwin Got Wrong

• "What Darwin Got Wrong" is a remarkable book, one that dares to challenge the theory of natural selection as an explanation for how evolution works--a devastating critique not in the name of religion but in the name of good science. Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, a distinguished philosopher and a scientist working in tandem, reveal major flaws at the heart of Darwinian evolutionary theory. Combining the results of cutting-edge work in experimental biology with crystal-clear philosophical arguments, they mount a reasoned and convincing assault on the central tenets of Darwin's account of the origin of species. The logic underlying natural selection is the survival of the fittest under changing environmental pressure. This logic, they argue, is mistaken, and they back up the claim with surprising evidence of what actually happens in nature. This is a rare achievement--a concise argument that is likely to make a great deal of difference to a very large subject. "What Darwin Got Wrong" will be controversial. The authors' arguments will reverberate through the scientific world. At the very least they will transform the debate about evolution and move us beyond the false dilemma of being either for natural selection or against science.