<< Stephen Jay Gould's thesis of punctuated
equilibrium modifies Darwin's gradualism
and makes a dialectical version of Darwinism.
>> Would Gould agree with the "dialectical." I ask, because this is a curious statement to make, or least it's a new way of considering Darwin. However, George Herbert Mead, not to change the subject, uses a dialectic of the self to explain the individual and such; he had Darwin's natural selection in the back of his mind as he wrote, as I recall. I had not thought of natural selection in human or anthropocentric terms such as "dialectical," but for Mead. Just thinking out loud. Regards. Ed Evans