Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 09:45:25 -0400
Subject: Query: What is "Adaptationism"?


     Either I missed some important posts on this thread re adaptationism, 
or everyone in it is assuming everyone on the list is a biologist. Could 
someone explain it clearly enough to a non-biologist so that she could 
follow the debate more intelligently (in fact find out why or whether 
there is a debate)?

     A derivative question. Would it be true to say that homo sapiens 
has been more or less "stable" over the last 100,000 years? And if so, 
then debates about evolution would re relevant to excplaining how homo 
sapiens became homo sapiens, but not relevant or significant 
(non-tautological) to anything that has happened to us during those 
100,000 years?
     Jan C


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