“Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket. Such questions include, for example, 'How do new structures arise in evolution?' 'Why, given so much environmental change, is stasis so prevalent in evolution as seen in the fossil record?' 'How did one group of organisms or set of macromolecules evolve from another?' The importance of these questions is not at issue; it is just that neo-Darwinians, restricted by their resuppositions, cannot answer them.” LanguageGivenAnswersIssuesRecordsGroupsExampleEvolutionMajorsImportanceStructureEnvironmentalAriseEvolveOrganismsFossilsStasisZoologistEnvironmental Change Book:Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis and Evolution Source: Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis and Evolution
“All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution?” Has BeensEnoughNaturalCommonGroupsEvolutionScientistAgreeDriversSelectionExtinctionNatural SelectionAncestryBiological Evolution Author:Lynn Margulis
“Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.” EarthTreeEvolutionSurfaceLinear Book:What is Life? Source: What is Life?
“Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a wing, a fruit, a woody stem, or a claw appear. Mutations, in summary, tend to induce sickness, death, or deficiencies. No evidence in the vast literature of heredity changes shows unambiguous evidence that random mutation itself, even with geographical isolation of populations, leads to speciation.” ShowsCoursesLiteratureLossInfluenceEvolutionEvidenceWingsFruitPopulationIsolationSicknessStemDeficiencyRefinementClawsWoodyAlterationsHeredityMutationSummarySpeciation Author:Lynn Margulis
