Archetype

Pre-Darwinian Homology

In a recent post Malte C. Ebach and David M. Williams criticize a paper by Anastasia Thanukos for bringing up the concept of common ancestry into the definition of homology. Their criticism seems a little harsh to me since, as they noted, the paper is aimed at Science teachers and it is therefore written on a “text-book” tone. This issue aside, however, I find their complain somewhat out of touch. › Continue reading

Tags: Common ancestry, Homology, Pattern and process