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Ep 36: Intentional Evolution
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Ep 36: Intentional Evolution

Is there a role for agency in evolution? Do organismal efforts to maintain homeostasis represent a form of biological intentionality?

On this episode of Big Biology, we talk with Scott Turner, a physiologist and emeritus professor of Biology from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Scott’s book, Purpose and Desire, discusses how holes in standard evolutionary theory might be productively filled by the concept of homeostasis. Scott argues that by attempting to maint…

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