Random variations, gradualism and the role of natural selection.

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While the modern synthesis has at its core the claim that evolution can be entirely explained by the natural selection of random variations, neither "random" nor "variation" is adequately defined. Neo-Darwinists explicitly deny that they use random with the meaning of haphazard, but it is what they assume in their work; if they did not, they could not justify their total concentration on selection and neglect of...

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