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Gene Avatars: The Neo-Darwinian Theory of Evolution

Gene Avatars: The Neo-Darwinian Theory of Evolution

Gouyon, Pierre-Henri
Henry, Jean-Pierre
Arnould, Jacques

Hardcover

BiologyChemistryEvolution

ISBN10: 0306466163
ISBN13: 9780306466168
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: May 31 2002
Pages: 287
Weight: 1.44
Height: 0.97 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.46
Language: English

Why life?' Questions of this type were for a long time the prerogative of philosophers who left the how' question to scientists. Nowadays, Darwin's successors no longer have any qualms about addressing the why' as well as the how'. Over a century ago, Darwin modestly admitted having 'thrown some light on the origin of species - this mystery of mysteries'. Two major advances in the following decades helped biologists answer many of the questions he left unsolved. The first was the discovery of the laws of heredity, the second that of DNA. Both provided Darwinian theory with the foundations that were lacking and led to the all-embracing neo-Darwinian synthesis. Since then, Theodosius Dobzhansky's aphorism nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution' has proven true more than once. This does not suit everyone, as evolutionist ideas have not lost their power to cause a scandal.

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