16 In lectures delivered between November 21 and December 16, 1924, however, Whitehead does discuss evolution and emergence in
more cosmological terms — but in a manner that is entirely innocuous,
unsystematic, and which gives no evidence whatever of interest in or influence of other evolutionary cosmologies: e.g.,» Evolution is the production of superior types out of inferior types» (MW 266; cf. 267 - 69).
Ecological fidelity can be further biased by
unsystematic recovery if, for example, only the
more complete, identifiable, or rare specimens are collected.