Assertion: evolution's theory | /r/HasProperty | devised
Facets:
value: partly
type: DEGREE
value: in order to explain
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: The real issue is whether a modern, well-supported Lamarckian theory can be devised, consistent with well-documented parts of modern molecular genetics, and be able to be articulated with a surviving core of Darwinian natural selection.
text: As we have seen, Darwin’s theory of pangenesis was developed partly in order to explain what he took to be the phenomena of use-inheritance, and a general account of use-inheritance played an important role in Darwin’s cultural evolutionary account of human moral progress.