• A Spandrel in the Works

  • Jan 2 2023
  • Length: 11 mins
  • Podcast

A Spandrel in the Works

  • Summary

  • In 1979 Stephen Jay Gould and genetecist Richard C. Lewontin presented the paper “The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme”. What do spandrels have to do with evolution and biology? Sometimes, things are there simply because they are.

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