Re: Adaptationism's Lessons (was Re: Evolution, "adaptation")

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wilkins@wehi.edu.au (John Wilkins) writes:

>| As Cronin says more articulately than I could, the problem is that
>| critics "are conflating the claim that natural selection is the only
>| [creative] evolutionary force with the claim that all characteristics of
>| organisms must be adaptive" (p. 86).

>Hear, hear

Apparently, our discussions on talk.origins made no impression on you.
I'm disappointed. In any case, I recommend Williams' 1992 book, Natural
Selection, for his current thoughts, in particular with regard to clade
selection.

I also commend to you:
Lenski's paper in Fitch and Ayala, ed., Tempo and Mode in Evolution.
and:
http://www.rose.brandeis.edu/users/simister/pages/Ahouse/critique.html

Paul
pcg@panix.com
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/ms_students/m-pg0123/index.html

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