TY - JOURS
T1 - Geschichte und Problem des Höherentwicklungsbegriffs
ROSSLENBROICH, BERND
JAS - Jahr für Goethe.
JF - Jahrbuch für Goetheanismus
PY - 2002
VL - 2002
SP - 7
EP - 76
DO - 10.18756/jfg.2002.7
SN - Print :1866-4830 Online : 2750-2341 
LA - de
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N1 - The history and problem of the idea of evolutionThe usual picture of the phylogenetic process is that there were first singlecelled bacterialike organisms followed by multicellularlowerand laterhigher rather complex and differentiated forms of life This succession of evolutionary changes has often been calledevolutionary progress This motion is increasingly criticized in modern evolutionary sciences but at the same time it can be shown that nearly all evolutionists of today use the picture of aprogressiveevolutionary process in one way or another although they try to avoid the term by theoretical considerations Ever since Darwins time evolutionary biologists have been unable to live either with or without the motion of progress This situation points to an unsolved problem concerning the understanding of the macroevolutionary processThe article analyses the historical and theoretical background of this situation It shows that the termevolutionary progresscarries some historical and theoretical ballast with it that must be overcome But at the same time it is used as a metaphor for the qualitative changes that took place during evolution which are still difficult to describe but are essential to understanding the historical features It shows also that the very diverging attitudes of evolutionists towards the term point to fundamental differences concerning the general scientific view of the process of evolution Some elements are developed to contribute to an epistemologically solid notion of the underlying context and a brief outlook is given to the scientific work on some key problems that might lead to a solution of the controversiesnbsp
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ST - Geschichte und Problem des Höherentwicklungsbegriffs
UR - https://dx.doi.org/10.18756/jfg.2002.7
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