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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: net.bio
Subject: Re: Darwin
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Date: Sat, 12-Oct-85 01:49:23 EDT
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> Two of my spare time books have recently included Darwin's Origin of
> Species and S. J. Gould's Ontogeny and Phylogeny.  What is surprising
> about Darwin is that he anticipated most of his critics and include
> three chapters about problems with his ideas.  He was quite critical of
> himself.  What makes this surprising is that his critics have not
> really changed their arguments over the course of 100 years.  

I would like to add to this list: Steven Jay Gould's _Ever_Since_Darwin_.
And for some of the things which Darwin didn't anticipate, but which fit
very well into his theory (and which Darwin would have included had the evidence
been known): R. Dawkins' _The_Selfish_Gene_

	(A personal note:  I covered the Arkansas Creationist trial for
	 the Harvard Crimson in which Gould testified for the ACLU, and 
 	 which ended with Judge William Overton striking down the state
	 law requiring equal time for Creationism, and to this day, I
	 can't understand how anyone could have any doubt that evolution
	 occurs. But that's something for net.origins...)

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				Craig Werner
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              "When I was your age, I did it for half an hour every day."