Date: Thu, 23 May 96 11:40:41 GMT
Subject: Re: TREE - reply to Terry's of 4-19, part 2 -Reply -Reply



> 
> Lisa earlier provides a good example of this.  Ultras contend that 
> punctuated equilibrium can be  assimilated as an observation of different 
> rates of evolutionary change.  No big deal, No change in worldview 
> needed.  Gould and Eldredge however contend that this insight 
> fundamentally alters the pattern and dynamics of evolutionary change. 
>  Further that it allows the actual theorization of species as a 
> category in the history of life which the population genetics story 
> of relatively smooth genetic change within populations cannot 
> conceive.
> 
> Opposing unnecessary polarization in this case is a wish that the 
> opposition would go away expressed in the voice of sweet reason.
> 
> Terry McDonough
> 

If this isn't an argument for a dialectic in nature, I don't know
what is.

Adam.



Adam Rose
SWP
Manchester
UK


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