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- noun The modern synthesis of Charles Darwin's theory of
natural selection with the moderngenetic understanding ofheredity .
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Examples
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She's saying that neo-Darwinism — the belief that biological novelty came about by random mutation and natural selection — is dead wrong.
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Thus the Evo-Devo crowd say that until we understood the mechanisms that control embryological development, we couldn't account for variation and novelty, despite neo-Darwinism claiming to be able to account for it for decades.
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I'd be especially interested to read Margulis using the phrase "neo-Darwinism".
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Thus Lynn Margulis criticizes neo-Darwinism as a religion, unable to account for speciation, and that her theory of symbiogenesis is the only one that can.
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She's attacking the idea that "RM + NS" can fully account for the kinds of variation observed in life because there are plenty of other engines of variation than just "RM". and ignored when she attacks neo-Darwinism in the same way that Behe does.
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"We wish to highlight the scientific weaknesses of neo-Darwinism and to encourage a more critical approach to the teaching of evolution in schools and universities," it said in a statement.
Scientists demand tougher guidelines on teaching of creationism in schools 2011
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It is evidence that you think neo-Darwinism has overcome, but that does not make it non-evidence.
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It is evidence that you think neo-Darwinism has overcome, but that does not make it non-evidence.
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The public field of evolutionary theory is beset by creationist rubbish, while neo-Darwinism has talked itself into a corner.
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Uh, Helena, if you had actually read the interview, you would realize that the neo-Darwinism that Margulis is criticizing is very much a thing of the present, not the past:
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