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1. Bergson 1911 Creative Evolution

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   Critique of Mechanism and Neo-Darwinism
   Bergson devotes considerable attention to dismantling the prevailing mechanistic interpretations of evolution, particularly those drawing from late 19th-century understandings of Natural Selection and statistical variation. He argues that if evolution were purely mechanistic—a simple unfolding of initial conditions through inherent physical laws—then the fundamental structures of organisms, such as the striking similarity between the eyes of vertebrates and cephalopods (convergent evolution), would be inexplicable or r…

2. Biology

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   Reproduction: The capacity to produce new individual organisms, either sexually or asexually, passing on hereditary information.
   Response to Stimuli: Living systems react to changes in their environment, a process often mediated by specialized receptor cells.
   Adaptation and Evolution: Populations of organisms change over generations in response to selective pressures, a process governed by natural selection.
   The Pervasive Blue Hue of Cellular Fluid