The anthropic principle and its implications for biological evolution
@article{Carter1983TheAP, title={The anthropic principle and its implications for biological evolution}, author={B. Carter}, journal={Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences}, year={1983}, volume={310}, pages={347 - 363} }
In the form in which it was originally expounded, the anthropic principle was presented as a warning to astrophysical and cosmological theorists of the risk of error in the interpretation of astronomical and cosmological information unless due account is taken of the biological restraints under which the information was acquired. However, the converse message is also valid: biological theorists also run the risk of error in the interpretation of the evolutionary record unless they take due heed… Expand
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