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(More customer reviews)This is one of the most helpful critiques of the dogma of natural selection, along with Soren Lovtrup's Darwinism: Refutation of a Myth, and Robert Reid's Evolutionary Theory: The Unfinished Synthesis. Filled withthe hard evidence you won't find in textbooks and that explodes Darwin'sclaims,without rejecting the broad context of evolution, the book cogentlyattempts to reach a broader systems view that looks at the transformationsof the genome as a whole. Although the intimations of chaos theory here area bit simplistic, no substitute theory is required to demonstrate the factthat natural selection simply cannot account for the rising number offactual discrepancies. This type of exploration of new ground is both vitaland timely. The author's wry suggestion that the six-leggedness of insectsfalsifies natural selection is but one of the many insights. His disposalof sexual selection is another. Any Darwin dogmatist should be afraid ofthis book. If you read it, you will snap out of it and end up a Darwindoubter. Bravo.John Landonnemonemini@eonix.8m.com
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in this broad and highly readable inquiry, Robert Wesson proposes an approach to evolution that is more in harmony with modern science than Darwinism or neoDarwinism. He emphasizes the importance for evolution of inner direction and the self-organizing capacities of life, a view that is better able to account for the chaotic nature of the evolutionary process and the inherent propensity of complex dynamic systems to grow more complex with time. Many examples of plants and animals support this idea, and Wesson includes both carefully documented scientific facts and intriguing anecdotes about the odd aberrations in natural selection.
Books by Robert Wesson include Cosmos and Metacosmos.
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