It sure took me some time to understand this one.
If I take a fistful of sand in my hand, and let it go, it will fall on the ground with some grains on top, some grains on bottom, and a lot in the middle. Would Darwin have studied the evolution of sand, would he have suggested that grains on the top are survivors? Anthropomorphically so?
I dedicate this to Mike Sheppard, for telling me that I should read What Darwin Got Wrong by Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini. I have not done it yet though, but the very title prompted in me the thought above.
Bertrand du Castel
If I take a fistful of sand in my hand, and let it go, it will fall on the ground with some grains on top, some grains on bottom, and a lot in the middle. Would Darwin have studied the evolution of sand, would he have suggested that grains on the top are survivors? Anthropomorphically so?
I dedicate this to Mike Sheppard, for telling me that I should read What Darwin Got Wrong by Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini. I have not done it yet though, but the very title prompted in me the thought above.
Bertrand du Castel
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