Tag: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Non-Mendelian Inheritance Undermines Neo-Darwinism
Neo-Darwinians breathed a sigh of relief when in the 1930s they found a way to incorporate Mendel’s laws of heredity. Now, that relief is unraveling.
Distancing Darwin from Racism Is a Fool’s Errand
“Scholars have wasted their time trying to exonerate Darwin of responsibility for Social Darwinism, for he was a Social Darwinist.”
Scott Turner Describes the Largely Forgotten History of Evolutionary Theory
The fatal flaw with metaphysical vitalism was that it invariably led to circular reasoning.
Distancing Darwin from Racism Is a Fool’s Errand
“Scholars have wasted their time trying to exonerate Darwin of responsibility for Social Darwinism, for he was a Social Darwinist.”
These Creatures Would Give Darwin Shivers
Darwin thought everything evolved from a simple cell by mindless chance processes. The animals don’t know that.