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2001

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Evolution Is Opportunistic, Not Directional - Response, Timothy Shanahan Jan 2001

Evolution Is Opportunistic, Not Directional - Response, Timothy Shanahan

Philosophy Faculty Works

Argues against an article published in 'BioScience' magazine in which Timothy Shanahan says that evolution is progressive and directional and embodies improvement.Discussion of regressive and progressive evolution and the accompanying multiplication or loss of phenotypic characteristics; Illustrations related to the blindness and loss of pigmentation in troglobitic, or deep-sea cave organisms; Response from Shanahan.

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