| [ PhilosophyThought ] in KIDS 글 쓴 이(By): Monde (김_형_도) 날 짜 (Date): 2002년 2월 5일 화요일 오후 05시 10분 00초 제 목(Title): commnet from Mayr Mayr wrote in "What evolution is": "most treatments of evolution are written in a reductionist manner in which all evolutionary phenomena are reduced to the level of the gene. An attempt is then made to explain the higher-level evolutionary process by "upward" reasoning. This approach invariably fails. Evolution deals with phenotypes of individuals, with populations, with species; it is not "a change in gene frequencies."" As he says, I understand most reductionist scientists (not philosophers) consider reductionism as the above. |