O processo evolutivo é muito mais complicado do que Darwin explicou

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October 07, 2009

Beyond Darwin
By Ryan McNutt

Were Charles Darwin alive today, he’d be celebrating not only his 200th birthday this year but the 150th anniversary of the publication of his groundbreaking On the Origin of Species.

But for a man synonymous with his theory—so much so that Darwinism and evolution are often used interchangeably—there’s a lot that he wouldn’t recognize about it today.


A reproduction of the first-known sketch by Charles Darwin of an evolutionary tree describing the relationships among groups of organisms.

“We’re beginning to realize that the process of evolution is much more complicated than Darwin made it out to be,” explains Ford Doolittle, professor in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. “For example, we’ve accepted for a few decades now that natural selection is not the only method of evolution. Instead, we know that evolution is like a toolkit of explanatory techniques.”

Next week, Dr. Doolittle and his colleagues (Gordon McOuat at King’s, Richmond Campbell and Jerry Barkow at Dal, and Lisa Gannett at SMU) are bringing dozens of the world’s foremost scholars on both Darwin and evolution to campus for a series of professional workshops and public lectures titled “The Idea of Evolution."
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