In recent decades biologists such as Lynn_Margulis have put forth that basically, Darwins thinking was heavily influenced by the then emergent dog-eat-dog capitalism of his time, and that actually, Symbiotic relationships far out number competitive ones in nature. From wiki: She also held a negative view of certain interpretations of Neo-Darwinism that she felt were excessively focused on inter-organismic competition, as she believed that history will ultimately judge them as comprising a minor twentieth-century religious sect within the sprawling religious persuasion of Anglo-Saxon Biology. She also believed that proponents of the standard theory wallow in their zoological, capitalistic, competitive, cost-benefit interpretation of Darwin – having mistaken him... Neo-Darwinism, which insists on [the slow accrual of mutations by gene-level natural selection], is in a complete funk.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 07:21:03 +0000
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