Re: Adaptationism again

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In <50hbuo$2qdk@argo.unm.edu> mycol1@unm.edu (Bryant) writes:

>Apparently, Lewtontin underwent a major religious conversion before
>co-authoring the "Spandrels" paper with Gould the following year, or he
>knew better, and whispers amongst biologists that the spandrels paper was
>a strategic platform from which to assault sociobiology in the popular
>press are valid.

>
Which whispering biologists have you been hanging out with? The critique
of pan-adaptationism long predated the "Spandrels of San Marco" paper.
Gould and Seilacher and Raup's key works on the subject appeared in the
early 1970's, before Wilson's "Sociobiology" was published.

Paul

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