12.16.06

Implausible deniability

Posted in Evolution at 8:36 pm by nemo

Closet Lamarckians?

Okay, I admit it. I can be slow. Y’see, I just started to seriously read The Plausibility of Life by Marc Kirschner and John Gerhart. What is most striking about this book is that, thus far, it nicely captures many of the new findings in science and evolutionary biology that enhance the plausibility of front-loading evolution. You get a feel for the essence of front-loading from Sean Carroll’s blurb on the back cover – “They suggest further that there is a bias in an organism’s capacity to evolve and in the directions that evolution takes.”

Another suspicion: a rediscovered connection to Lamarck is being tacitly suggested.

For all the brouhaha over peer review the sad fact is that we have no scientific or other body able to assess the real status of current research.

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