The Loom of the Link
Writing for the web reveals to me some of the illusions that ordinary writing can create. History–particularly the history of ideas–does not proceed in a linear fashion like lines of words across a page. It is more like an expanding net, with different people influencing each other across the disciplines and from centuries past. On the Understanding Evolution site, we decided to lay out the history of evolutionary thought as a set of tangled branching vines, with plenty of links joining it all together. While books remain my first love, I’ll admit that the web sometimes gets closer to the shape of reality.
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