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Epilogue To Perceive is Not To Select

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Librarians, booksellers and publishers like books that can be conveniently classified (dare we say speciated?). Books on science go on one shelf. Books on science politics go on another [2, 3]. Most students encounter science first, and read books that give no inkling of the underlying polities. This has been described as “... an enormous problem of which students, or people who look only at standard textbooks and sanitized histories of science, are usually unaware ... You get the impression that the history of science is a totally progressive, orderly, logical development of ideas” [4].

“His nature was too large, too ready to conceive regions beyond his own experience, to rest at once in the easy explanation, ‘madness,’ whenever a consciousness showed some fullness and conviction where his own was blank.” George Eliot, Daniel Deronda (1876) [1]

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Forsdyke, D.R. (2006). Epilogue To Perceive is Not To Select. In: Evolutionary Bioinformatics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-33419-6_16

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