Exquisite debate: Dawkins vs. Gould.(Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould )

From: The Humanist | Date: January 1, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

ALL TOO OFTEN LOST or forgotten among the mind-numbing, carnivalesque creationist-vs.-evolutionist sideshows currently haunting the popular media's pseudo-intellectual backwaters are the genuinely scientific debates over evolutions varied mechanisms and alleged limitations. What is the fundamental unit of evolutionary change? Is the process dominated by natural selection, constraint, or chance? To what extent can selection explain and predict cultural and psychological phenomena? No questions could be more relevant to, among other things, a competent understanding of humanity--who ...

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