MadSci Network: Evolution
Query:

Subject: Has molecular biology changed the nature of evolutionary thought?

Date: Wed Oct 11 18:44:52 2000
Posted by shannon
Grade level: teacher/prof School: No school entered.
City: new york State/Province: new york Country: united states
Area of science: Evolution
ID: 971304292.Ev
Message:

Molecular biology has provided major advances in evolutionary study (like 
providing new ways to discover phylogenies) but has it changed the nature 
of thought?  It is an amazing tool to get answers, but does it change the 
questions we ask or the principles we believe?  For example, the argument 
that the genetic level is the "meaningful" level of evolution.  Genes are 
the units of selection and  are the real players in evolution, organisms 
are just "vehicles".  


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