Word: darwinians
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...science has been advanced by, among others, Professor Gould himself. Gould's indefatigable efforts to present Darwin's views to the public (see his monthly essays in Natural History magazine gathered together in Ever Since Darwin and its sequels) disprove the attempts to place him in the camp of "Darwinian revisionists." Apart from his public activities, Professor Gould also seeks, through his scientific investigations, to extend and generalize Darwinian theory, rather than to revise...
...current theory of evolution is a broader concept than Darwinism and it is the former that may be subject to revisions. The mechanism of adaptive evolution, i.e. Darwinian natural selection, however does not need to be revised. May Darwin sleep quietly. Michael Jasienski, G1 Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Professor of Geology Stephen Jay Gould argued, before a crowd of 200 at Hillel last night, that the classical Darwinian theory of evolution must be revised to explain phenomena other than competition among individuals...
Gould said the Darwinian concept of individuals struggling for personal reward has never been disproven, but the equally valid concepts of competition between groups and even whole species requires a broader theoretical approach...
...outdated liberalism but good biology to say that in a Darwinian world, regulated by struggle among individuals, integration is possible...