Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution

Cziko (educational psychology, U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) integrates several scientific disciplines within the perspective of universal selection theory to account for cases of fit involving living organisms, even those that appear miraculous. He asserts that all novel forms of adapted complexity, from single-celled organisms to scientific theories, emerge from an evolutionary process involving cumulative blind variation and selection, and describes the ongoing second Darwinian revolution. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.