Épistémologie et pédagogie chez Jean Piaget et Karl Popper by Alain Firode

“…Nevertheless, Popper disagrees with Piaget about two important questions: 1) Popper’s theory rests on a neo-Darwinian framework which rejects the Piagetian idea of equilibrium between self and the world; 2) unlike Piaget, who considers human thought as a purely mental entity, Popper considers that a thought, once formulated in language, gains autonomous existence (it becomes an “object” outside the mind). …”
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Evolutionary Computation and Its Applications in Neural and Fuzzy Systems by Biaobiao Zhang, Yue Wu, Jiabin Lu, K.-L. Du

“…Evolutionary computation is a general-purpose stochastic global optimization approach under the universally accepted neo-Darwinian paradigm, which is a combination of the classical Darwinian evolutionary theory, the selectionism of Weismann, and the genetics of Mendel. …”
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The Conservative Physiology of the Immune System. A Non-Metaphoric Approach to Immunological Activity by Nelson M. Vaz, Gustavo C. Ramos, Vitor Pordeus, Claudia R. Carvalho

“…In the late 50s, selective theories were proposed and from then on, immunology has been based in a close association with the neo-Darwinian principles, such as random generation of variants (lymphocyte clones), selection by extrinsic factors (antigens)—and, more generally, on genetic determinism and functionalism. …”
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