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"Shermer at Woodstock" (2005 World Summit on Evolution)

http://telicthoughts.com/?p=156
by MikeGene

"Then there is Lynn Margulis. According to Shermer, she proclaimed that neo-Darwinism was dead and likened its proponents to bullies.
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Then we read of Joan Roughgarden, who, according to Shermer, “proclaimed the death of Darwin’s theory of sexual selection.”
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Shermer also noted that Niles Eldridge is still arguing that the theory of punctuated equilibrium challenges Darwinian gradualism, while Leticia Aviles gave a presentation that “would have sent Darwinian fundamentalists into skeptical paroxysms”
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Margulis
Lynn Margulis, From Wikipedia





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