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No lone road to the promised land | blogjou

Daniel S. Milo

Good Enough - The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society

p. 97
18 Oct 2023

No lone road to the promised land


Alongside the numerous Galápagos species that did not stimulate Darwin’s genius, even the finches demonstrate D’Arcy Thompson’s dictum, announced in this book’s epigraph, that there are many paths to survival. Some were traced by darwin and his acolytes, some by Romanes, some by other theorists. Perhaps some have not yet been imagined or discovered. Nature may follow one or another of these paths more frequently, but none is the lone road to the promised land.