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WHAT EVOLUTION IS

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From Conversation:
WHAT EVOLUTION IS
By
Ernst Mayr
[12.31.99]
Topic:
LIFE
 
ERNST MAYR: WHAT EVOLUTION IS EDGE: To what extent has the study of evolutionary biology been the study of ideas about evolutionary biology? Is evolution the evolution of ideas, or is it a fact? ERNST MAYR: That's a very good question. Because of the historically entrenched resistance to the thought of evolution, documented by modern-day creationism, evolutionists have been forced into defending evolution and trying to prove that it is a fact and not a theory. Certainly the explanation of evolution and the search for its underlying ideas has been somewhat neglected, and my new book, the title of which is What Evolution Is, is precisely attempting to rectify that situation. It attempts to explain evolution. As I say in the first section of the book, I don't need... Go to conversation
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