ABSTRACT
In many contexts it is useful to distinguish process and product, to distinguish that which creates or produces from that which is created or produced. When considering the topic of evolutionary epistemology, some authors deal with the process of evolution. For example, D. T. Campbell (1960) has argued persuasively that the process of biological evolution is basically similar to both animal problem solving and human creative thinking, all three involving unguided search or variation and selective retention or reproduction. This chapter does not attempt to add to or clarify our understanding of the process of evolution; instead it focuses entirely on the products of biological evolution, that is, on certain specific animal forms that have been produced by evolutionary processes. This chapter asks what the sequence of forms, the evolutionary levels leading from protozoa to primate, can tell us about evolutionary epistemology.
