October 10, 2010
by peter.taylor
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How does this happen? How often does this happen? might be a response to the earlier post citing Waddington’s experiments, in which variation that originated as an appropriate response to environmental circumstances became more or less fixed over time in a … Continue reading
September 19, 2010
by peter.taylor
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By the 1950s the “neo-Darwinian” or “modern synthesis” in evolutionary theory had discounted or even rejected the significance to evolution of characters acquired in an organism’s lifetime. It became taboo to express sympathy with Lamarck. The irony is that the … Continue reading