Evolution theory beyond Darwin (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, February 09, 2010, 14:19 (5197 days ago) @ dhw

Saturday's Guardian carries a review by Mary Midgley of What Darwin Got Wrong, by Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli Palmarini: 
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> www.mywire.com/a/GuardianUnlimitedUK/Darwin-Got-Wrong-Book-review/15983015/?extId=10029 -> 
> "Charles Darwin complained quite crossly in his autobiography that, despite many denials, people still kept saying he thought natural selection was the sole cause of evolutionary development."
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> "He saw that the doctrine itself did not make sense. No filter, however, powerful, can be the only cause of what flows out of it. Questions about what comes into that filter have to be just as important."-
But as I read about Darwin, I find that Huxley warned that saltation should be considered in the theory. Darwin did not and excused the absence of its consideration on gaps in the fossil record, which would give the appearance of saltation. Mechanisms described by J. Shapiro will preduce novel advances. Interesting abstract:-http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19224263