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What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.

Stephen Jay Gould

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Was für ein seltsamer Zeitpunkt, um ein Fundamentalist der Anpassung und der natürlichen Auslese zu sein - wenn in jeder großen Subdisziplin der Evolutionsbiologie andere Mechanismen entdeckt wurden, die der Zentralität der Auswahl förderlich sind.

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