Volume 37, Number 10 · June 14, 1990
Fallen Angels
By Richard C. Lewontin
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
by Stephen Jay Gould
Norton, 347 pp., $19.95
I was once asked to be the commentator at a Philosophy of Science Association meeting on a paper by a famous epistemologist on the difference between theory confirmation in physics and in evolutionary biology. At first I was worried that I would not understand his paper, but after I read it, what worried me was that I did understand it.
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