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The Limits of Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

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At the beginning of this article I propose to use the word “ evolution “ as it is used in biology, to mean the formation of a number of vegetable or animal species out of a few comparatively simple types, and to exclude from its connotation any idea of perfection, purpose, value, and so on.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1927

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