Niles Eldredge and Punctuated Equilibria (Page 6) AchillesSinatra: Can you name an organism that is not well adapted? And how do you know? Think about it  AchillesSinatra: Do you understand the analogy? "All ships have features only conducive to their seaworthiness" is interesting, but obviously false. Now think of adaptation.  theHating: Here is the first reply from a PhD student in biochemistry. "> In conclusion, then, we have two warring theoretical camps -- traditional Darwinism vs punctuated equilibria -- violently at odds over whose evolutionary account best fits the facts. also you > as we were working on the 1972 Maybe 50 years ago, but now the modern synthesis is the accepted theory, and there isn't any real contest in the science community except some fringe folks trying to expand it to the "meh" of the rest of the community and generally rejected positions like creationism" AchillesSinatra: I believe the standard position is "We're all agreed it happened; we're just not sure what" (Edited by AchillesSinatra) theHating: Idk, man, i think its "the theory of evolution" to laymen like me that dont know shit about genetics. | Science Chat Room 5 People Chatting Similar Conversations |
