To get a proper and adequate understanding of human freedom, one has to see man in the total context of evolution, for freedom did not start with man; it had its evolutionary roots at the infrahuman level. (religion-online.org)
Whitehead illuminates the complementarity between speculative and scientific thought in a most general context of evolution and reason in FR. (religion-online.org)
The concept has been controversial since it first arose, largely because it has been so difficult to distinguish between the forces of exaptation and adaptation in the historical context of evolution. (scientificamerican.com)