Hi SA, you said "Stephen Jay Gould emphasized the positive, creative aspect of natural selection"
Presonally, Accentuate the positive is my middle-name. Decrying excluded middles is my cracked record. I have pointed out a hundred times on here that the naive "tooth and claw of nature" take on neo-Darwinism is gross ignorance and misrepresentation of the positive, creative, nurture aspects. Darwin and a zillion other enlightened neo-Darwinian evolutionary scientists recognise these. People emphasising the negative have their own (political) agendas in my experience. Anyway, As you point out, Rayners choice of "natural inclusion" is an attempt to emphasise a more positive view than "natural selection". One source of confusion is the focus on "species" of individual biological organism, evolution is far more than that. People have pointed out that Darwin's "Origin of Species" says very little about the subject in it's title. "A theory of evolutionary processes" would have been more honest. Ian Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
