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117 | Sean B. Carroll on Randomness and the Course of Evolution
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is There a New Synthesis?
There have been claims that at this point in the history of the development ofo we're no longer darwinian, natural selection people. I think it's also our mechanistic understanding which has made us think much more precisely about where evolution is taking place and how that relates to traits. And so i'm going to say a big piece of the picture is missing from most evolutionary thinking. It wasn't just Darwin who was trying to get people used to the idea that things could change naturally. Natural selection really was his brain child. He came up with this analogy to breeding, to domestication, or what we call artificial selection. So he had a pretty difficult paradime he had to
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