The great scientists are always part of a continuum, building off preexisting ideas, participating in a cultural discussion. If Copernicus' arguments had landed only on deaf ears, heliocentrism would have disappeared. But plenty of others were ready to hear him out.
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The categories within the hierarchy are as (needfully) reductive as the concept of a species. Definitional barriers are so easily crossed as to be functionally nonexistent, and if nature does not recognize an organism, how could natural selection operate exclusively upon it?
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Modern evolutionary theory reinvigorates multilevel selection, a difficult concept Darwin once had to dispense with in order to move the theory forward. It's a fascinating history, and if you want to read more in depth I'd suggest Stephen Jay Gould and Thomas Kuhn
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in summary, biology always verges on soft science, but economics, social science and psychology are never sciences at all since they depend on non-falsifiable assumptions, and Kim Cattrall is 100% in the right while SJP can burn in the scorching winds of Jahannam.
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