From: Dr. Blake Nelson (bnelson301@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Dec 02 2002 - 08:27:34 EST
I was not trying to be exhaustive, merely
illustrative. And natural selection is incorporated
in all three in some form.
--- RFaussette@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 12/1/02 11:20:36 PM Eastern
> Standard Time,
> bnelson301@yahoo.com writes:
>
>
> > neo-Darwinianism,
> > punctuated equilibrium, and lamarckianism -- are
> all
> >
>
> neo-Darwinism if I'm not mistaken is ideologically
> driven but I could be
> wrong. Punctuated equilibrium is SJ Gould's attempt
> to explain the spread of
> adaptive traits. Lamarckianism (the inheritance of
> acquired characteristics)
> has been debunked regarding biological evolution
> although it does in a sense
> operate in cultural evolution.
> The major theory of how evolution occurs is natural
> selection.
> rich
>
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