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Post details: Gould, Stephen J. "The Return of the Hopeful Monsters"

11/03/04

by ARN Staff 09:55:15 am, Categories: Darwinism, 56 words

Gould, Stephen J. "The Return of the Hopeful Monsters"

The essence of Darwinism lies in a single phrase: natural selection is the creative force of evolutionary change. No one denies that selection will play a negative role in eliminating the unfit. Darwinian theories require that it create the fit as well."

Gould, Stephen J. (1977)
"The Return of Hopeful Monsters"
Natural History, Vol. 86, June/July, p. 28

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