Monday, February 08, 2010

Heresy alert ...

... Fodor's fight against fitness. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The big winner is evolution itself. It'd become a subject that never ends, like history. They'll always be variations in the way the past can be reconstructed, always new details to add, always unseen factors at play. In her review, Midgley says Darwin would have welcomed that. Whatever the story of terrestrial evolution turns out to be, the story of evolutionary science now looks radically incomplete
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