Reinventing Darwin : the great evolutionary debate
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Reinventing Darwin : the great evolutionary debate
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-233) and index
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This is a first-hand account of the discussions that are going on between biologists of different persuasions. On the one side are the "Ultra-Darwinists" - mainly theoretical geneticists - whose ranks include Richard Dawkins, John Maynard Smith and George C. Williams. They emphasize the supremacy of the gene and of natural selection. The other side is a more diverse group, the self-styled "Naturalists", who focus on whole creatures rather than genes and who think in terms of complex interacting ecological processes; here we find Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge.
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