Month: September 2022

WORDS OF AN EDITOR regarding the Williamson Hypothesis. "With a simple, but to some unacceptable, conceptual leap, he presents an explanation for the evolution of certain of the recent larval forms which seems both rational and feasible." https://lnkd.in/dEvFGNt View in LinkedIn

WILLIAMSON HYPOTHESIS. "Already for many cell biologists the theory will not appear so very far-fetched, because the origins of organelles which are cytoplasmically inherited, such as the mitochondria and the chloroplasts, are thought to lie in the fusion of two different taxi to form a single entity. The original association is thought to come about through a symbiotic or parasitic relationship." https://books.google.es/books?hl=en&lr=&id=4Bv_CAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR3&dq=evolution+of+larval+stage&ots=Ajv40BxpV8&sig=UoAuSNQhyUJxvYurqij18mPF3GM View in LinkedIn

"THE WILLIAMSON THEORY offered a radical one-step alternative and the initial experimental confirmation of his theory." Foreword. (Lynn Margulis and Alfred I Tauber). Regardless, journal reviewers branded these ideas as rubbish. https://books.google.es/books?hl=en&lr=&id=4Bv_CAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR3&dq=evolution+of+larval+stage&ots=Ajv40BxpV8&sig=UoAuSNQhyUJxvYurqij18mPF3GM View in LinkedIn

BUN FIGHT. "At the conference where Tauber invited Williamson to present, Fred rose up and assessed his audience -- including some apoplectic sea urchinologists: either we were all privy to an historic moment (as the Haeckel phylogeny itself went extinct to be replaced by that drawn by Williamson), or else Williamson would be recorded as an ordinarily competent and diligent zoologist, who lived with animals by the seaside for 30 years, and whose mistake should be forgiven in the light of his standard contributions." https://books.google.es/books?hl=en&lr=&id=4Bv_CAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR3&dq=evolution+of+larval+stage&ots=Ajv40BxpV8&sig=UoAuSNQhyUJxvYurqij18mPF3GM View in LinkedIn

PLEA FOR SANITY. "We all believe that scientists with unpopular ideas need not suffer repression. We suspect that many marine zoologists have noted similar phenomena as those unified by Williamson's theory." And it is all amenable to experimental validation." (Foreword). https://books.google.es/books?hl=en&lr=&id=4Bv_CAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR3&dq=evolution+of+larval+stage&ots=Ajv40BxpV8&sig=UoAuSNQhyUJxvYurqij18mPF3GM View in LinkedIn

DOC RICKETTS IN CANNERY ROW. (John Steinbeck). "Doc is also the smartest man in Cannery Row, interested in knowing something about everything. "Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and change it for you to a kind of wisdom. His mind had no horizon," Steinbeck wrote. "Everyone who knew him was indebted to him. And everyone who thought of him thought next, 'I really must do something nice for Doc.' https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannery_Row_(novel) View in LinkedIn

HERESY REVERSED. "When Charles Darwin published his Origin of Species in 1859 it was considered heretical by most people. Today, the situation is reversed, and in biological circles at least, it is considered heretical not to agree with Darwin." (1992). https://books.google.es/books?hl=en&lr=&id=4Bv_CAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR3&dq=evolution+of+larval+stage&ots=Ajv40BxpV8&sig=UoAuSNQhyUJxvYurqij18mPF3GM View in LinkedIn

"EVOLUTIONARY theory, as it is today generally accepted, postulates that species evolved from other species in monophyletic lines of descent by the accumulation of gradual hereditable changes.” https://books.google.es/books?hl=en&lr=&id=4Bv_CAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR3&dq=evolution+of+larval+stage&ots=Ajv40BxpV8&sig=UoAuSNQhyUJxvYurqij18mPF3GM View in LinkedIn

NOT SUFFICIENT. "I claim that this theory alone is not adequate to explain why some animals have the embryos and larvae they do and the life histories they do." https://books.google.es/books?hl=en&lr=&id=4Bv_CAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR3&dq=evolution+of+larval+stage&ots=Ajv40BxpV8&sig=UoAuSNQhyUJxvYurqij18mPF3GM View in LinkedIn

MOSTLY ADEQUATE. "The larva and adult phases in development commonly follow totally different ways of life, and the process which Darwin called "descent with modification" and natural selection are frequently adequate to explain the differences in form that adapt them to their different environments." https://books.google.es/books?hl=en&lr=&id=4Bv_CAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR3&dq=evolution+of+larval+stage&ots=Ajv40BxpV8&sig=UoAuSNQhyUJxvYurqij18mPF3GM View in LinkedIn