Some evolutionists will protest that we are caricaturing their view of…

Stephen Jay Gould
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Some evolutionists will protest that we are caricaturing their view of adaptation. After all, do they not admit genetic drift, allometry, and a variety of reasons for nonadaptive evolution?
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