Clarifying Generalized Darwinism: A Reply to Scholz and Reydon
回应Scholz和Reydon对广义达尔文主义的批评,指出其部分表述不准确,并讨论种群定义问题在生物学中的持续性,但认为这并不否定广义达尔文主义。
Markus Scholz and Thomas A. C. Reydon discuss the approach known as generalized Darwinism and make a number of comments and criticisms. This reply demonstrates that a number of their statements are inaccurate and misleading. It is important to examine the accounts of generalized Darwinism carefully, including what its proponents say about its explanatory limitations. Scholz and Reydon raise an important question concerning the definition of populations or species, but overlook the additional persistence of this problem in biology. This definitional problem is important but it does not invalidate generalized Darwinism.