{"id":651,"date":"2010-01-29T00:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T08:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10083047.post-1724517692272281247"},"modified":"2010-01-29T01:11:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T09:11:08","slug":"darwin-wuz-wrong-part-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/29\/darwin-wuz-wrong-part-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Darwin wuz wrong, part n"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/books\/features\/did-charles-darwin-get-it-wrong-1882253.html\">review<\/a> of a new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0374288798\/geneexpressio-20\/\">What Darwin Got Wrong<\/a>. Co-authored by Jerry Fodor, who has been continuing his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v29\/n20\/jerry-fodor\/why-pigs-dont-have-wings\">war against natural selection<\/a>. I&#8217;ve already read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1594032009\/geneexpressio-20\/\">Darwinian Fairytales: Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity, and Other Fables of Evolution<\/a> (at the suggestion of a reader who found the arguments within incredibly persuasive, convincing me to simply ignore anything that reader ever asserted after finishing the book), so I think I have my quota of philosopher-declaring-evolution-the-naked-emperor under my belt. Meanwhile, there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/19744124\">real scholars<\/a> grappling with the issues which emerged in the wake of the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis and its discontents, and pushing science forward.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Darwin <i>was<\/i> wrong about many things. But how many scientists will still have such an impact 150 into the future? He&#8217;s a big enough figure that people can sell books just by putting his name into the title! Only a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0618711686\/geneexpressio-20\/\">few<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0738205753\/geneexpressio-20\/\">others<\/a> fall into that class.<\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b> Here you can read a draft of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chd.ucsd.edu\/seminar\/documents\/Fodor.Chapter3.pdf\">third chapter<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0374288798\/geneexpressio-20\/\">What Darwin Got Wrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/10083047-1724517692272281247?l=www.gnxp.com%2Fblog%2Findex.php' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A review of a new book, What Darwin Got Wrong. Co-authored by Jerry Fodor, who has been continuing his war against natural selection. I&#8217;ve already read Darwinian Fairytales: Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity, and Other Fables of Evolution (at the sugge&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}