NOISE VERSUS SIGNAL. “In essence, Standard Evolutionary Theory treats the environment as a ‘background condition’, which may trigger or modify selection, but is not itself part of the evolutionary process. It does not differentiate between how termites become adapted to mounds that they construct and, say, how organisms adapt to volcanic eruptions. We view these cases as fundamentally different.”
http://www.nature.com/news/does-evolutionary-theory-need-a-rethink-1.16080
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022