Another victory for science, another defeat for neo-Darwinism
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Davidson and Erwin: Neo Darwinism Doesn’t Work for the Cambrian Explosion
Davidson smiled, somewhat ruefully, and said, “Well, I’m not sure, but I know that standard single-base-pair mutations won’t do it” — meaning, as he later explained to me, the textbook neo-Darwinism every college biology student learns. He was more blunt with the science writer Fred Heeren, who was covering the now-notorious conference we were attending. “Neo-Darwinism is dead,” he said in an interview. Read More ›