The First Annual Lecture in Memory of Charles Darwin by The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities hosted Prof. Richard Dawkins, Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford, in Jerusalem.
Darwin’s Five Bridges: The power of a scientific theory may be measured as a ratio: all that it explains divided by all that it needs to assume in order to do the explaining. By this measure Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is arguably the most powerful theory ever. It needs to assume so little in order to explain so much.
But was Darwin the true originator? The lecture will argue that five conceptual bridges had to be crossed in order to arrive at the modern theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin crossed four of them. Other claimants such as Patrick Matthew and Alfred Wallace crossed two or three of them. The fifth bridge led to the modern genetic theory of natural selection. And is there, perhaps, a sixth bridge? כולל תרגום לעברית בכתוביות
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