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Mark Vellend, "Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics" (Princeton UP, 2025)

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The 'Darwinian Distraction' in Broader Evolutionary Thinking

Mark argues that overemphasis on Darwinian specifics (genes, randomness) can mislead attempts to generalize evolutionary theory.

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