“Evolutionary speculation constitutes a kind of metascience, which has the same intellectual fascination for some biologists that metaphysical speculation.

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“Evolutionary speculation constitutes a kind of metascience, which has the same intellectual fascination for some biologists that metaphysical speculation possessed for some mediaeval scholastics. It can be considered a relatively harmless habit, like eating peanuts, unless it assumes the form of an obsession; then it becomes a vice” (Stanier, 1970) BIOS E-127 –

Points re: “Spandrels” Spandrels (p.581) Dr. Pangloss (p.583) First target? (p.583) Natural selection can’t drive extinction (p.584) Only brake upon perfection? (p.585) Tyrannosaurus? (p.587) Bluebirds? (p.588) G&L other possibilities? (p.590) “Baupläne”? (p.593) In ecology too…

What is adaptation? Noun vs. verb (vs. acclimation) Noun: “…[A] feature is an adaptation for some function if it has become prevalent or is maintained in a population… because of natural selection for that function” (Futuyma, p.355) “… the good fit of organisms to their environment” (Gould & Lewontin, 1979)

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Tree basics: rotation

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