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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
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Subject: Re: Mutations - corrigendum
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Date: Sun, 28-Apr-85 01:56:06 EDT
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I made a mistake.  Now, I know most of you think that's not possible,
but it's true!  :-)

I gave a bad reference:

> Ernst Chain, Responsibility and the Scientist in Modern Western
> Society, Council of Christians and Jews, London, 1970, page 1.
> 
> "To postulate that the development and survival of the fittest is
> entirely a consequence of chance mutations seems to me a hypothesis
> based on no evidence and irreconcilable with the facts.  These
> classical evolutionary theories are a gross oversimplification of an
> immensely complex and intricate mass of facts, and it is amazing that
> they are swallowed so uncritically and so readily, and for such a long
> time, by so many scientists without a murmur of protest."

Well, it's not on page 1, it's on page 25.  I took the quote out of
a secondary source.  Now that I have had a chance to look up the
original, I find that my secondary source had a bug in it.

Sorry to ruin your day...

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Paul DuBois	{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois        --+--
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