Marx "admired" Darwin

[Charles Brown]

The dialectical is me looking at what Gould
is saying and analyzing it. I have never
heard Gould use the term to describe it.
However, Engels says somewhere that
most good scientists then ( and now we might add)
proceed dialectically but without knowing
it. I will look for the statements from 
Engels and maybe Haldane, if you like.

The principle in question is the interpenetration
of quality and quantity. Darwin describes
evolution as continuous (gradual). The punctuations
would make it continuous with rare discontinuities.

What say you ?

Charles Brown

  Detroit


>>> <WolfSave at aol.com> 08/17 4:49 PM >>>
In a message dated 8/17/98 1:34:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us writes:

<< 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