Re: Quote Mine: "The emperor has no clothes"--Hsu

From: Augray (augray_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 09/10/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:41:31 +0000 (UTC)

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 23:10:54 +0000 (UTC), johnSPAM@wilkins.id.au (John
Wilkins) wrote in news:<1gjw0vs.1t8pftj1fcp6xjN%johnSPAM@wilkins.id.au>:

[big snip]

> It is my experience that a great many scientists overdraw the conflict
> between their own views and those of others when talking about social
> matters. "Darwinism" is a big tent [;-)] that incorporates a number of
> disparate views (see my "How to be Anti-Darwinian" FAQ) and in the
> period from the 1940s to the 1980s to oppose "Darwinism" meant to oppose
> natural selection as a primary agent of evolution. Some of those who
> opposed this still called themselves Darwinians, while others (Løvtrup,
> the pattern cladists, Steele, and for a while Gould) denied it.

There was a time when Gould didn't think that natural selection was the
primary agent of evolution?

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