Posted by
glen e. p. ropella-2 on
Feb 10, 2010; 8:34pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/speaking-of-evolution-and-self-organization-tp4550631.html
I'm nearing the end of my (first?) scan of "Evolution without Selection"
by Antonio Lima-de-Faria. I really enjoy alternatives to the dominant
theories. They help me understand more about the claims of the dominant
theory, as well as ways in which it might be false. For example, I
learned quite a bit about fossil fuels reading Gold's "Deep Hot Biosphere".
LdF's concept of autoevolution is very cool and I'm wondering
why/whether more people don't/do talk about it. Is it because in the
years since he wrote the book, neo-Darwinism has refined selection and
encompassed autoevolution? (This is what I suspect.) Or is it that
some of his rhetoric (which seems to consist mostly of ad hoc
morphological analogies) is too weak to be useful?
Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
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