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0 pointsjononomo2y ago0 comments

Well, a lot of things don't square well with evolutionary biology, which is why the field is in crisis.

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knightoffaith2y ago· 2 in thread

I know evolutionary psychology has been getting a lot of heat, but is evolutionary biology in general in crisis? As far as I know people like Gould weren't rejecting evolution wholesale so much as they were rejecting adaptationism.

jononomoOP2y ago

Yes. There was a conference on this in 2016: https://www.quantamagazine.org/scientists-seek-to-update-evo...

You can also read my other comment on this topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37014923

geye12342y ago

Very interesting, thanks!

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