Since Darwin propounded his theory of evolution by natural selection, evolution has been much more than a science. It has been a worldview that has affected culture in numerous ways, and different cultures in diverse ways.[^23] As we have n…24. Smocovitis, Unifying Biology, pp. 142–153: 148. Connie Barlow’s book of readings, Evolution Extended: Biological Debates on the Meaning of Life (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995), clearly shows these wider evolutionary themes.
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Theodosius Dobzhansky
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Dobzhansky was a mid-twentieth-century evolutionary biologist whose famous aphorism "nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution" became foundational to the modern synthesis of evolutionary theory. He appears here primarily as a citation marker in discussions of how evolution functioned not just as science but as a cultural worldview shaping broader interpretations of life and meaning. His work is invoked to establish the philosophical reach of evolutionary thinking beyond its empirical domain—relevant to how the seminar traces the genealogy of systems thinking and cybernetic frameworks that inherit this expansive, explanatory ambition.
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