BDSbook presents essays and papers on (mostly) scientific topics - past, present, and future. BDSbook is written and compiled by B.D. Sommerville (B.Sc. M.Phil.) in Sydney, Australia. Email:
Full title: “Propagational Selection: An Essay on Darwin’s Principle and the Nature of Things” (2006)
This grandiosely entitled work is a philosophical and speculative essay, which discusses some aspects of Charles Darwin’s principle of natural selection, and explores the possibility of applying a Darwinian principle of selection to cosmological evolution. The aim is to consider how the essential qualities of the cosmos may have arisen and why they may be a necessary outcome of selection.
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The English writer and journalist H.G. Wells (1866-1946) authored many works, including early science fiction, futurist prophecies, social novels, a declaration of human rights, and educational works in biology, economics, and history. He was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, whose ideas on world government remain relevant and prescient today.
