A Spandrel in the Works
Jan 02, 2023•11 min
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In 1979 Stephen Jay Gould and genetecist Richard C. Lewontin presented the paper “The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme”. What do spandrels have to do with evolution and biology? Sometimes, things are there simply because they are.
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