Richard Lewontin Quote

It is the great irony of modern evolutionary genetics that the spirit of explanation has moved more and more towards optimal adaptation, while the technical developments of population genetics of the past 30 years have been increasingly to show the efficacy of non adaptive forces in evolution.


A Natural Selection, Nature, Volume 339, Number 6220, 11 May, 1989 (p. 107)


It is the great irony of modern evolutionary genetics that the spirit of explanation has moved more and more towards optimal adaptation, while the...

It is the great irony of modern evolutionary genetics that the spirit of explanation has moved more and more towards optimal adaptation, while the...

It is the great irony of modern evolutionary genetics that the spirit of explanation has moved more and more towards optimal adaptation, while the...

It is the great irony of modern evolutionary genetics that the spirit of explanation has moved more and more towards optimal adaptation, while the...