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neo-DarwinismTheory of evolution that represents a synthesis of Charles Darwin's theory in terms of natural selection and modern population genetics. The term was first used after 1896 to describe the theories of August Weismann (1834–1914), who asserted that his germ-plasm theory made impossible the inheritance of acquired characteristics and supported natural selection as the only major process that would account for biological evolution. |
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| The philosophical beliefs of neo-Darwinists can be just as important in shaping their views as the philosophical beliefs of creationists and ID proponents are in shaping theirs," (p. As a neo-Darwinist who never fully escaped the Victorian era, he wrote, "Liberty, of course, is not for slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it on men against their conscience. So some neo-Darwinist DNA researchers found that a few genes link a shrew and an elephant ("Genes seem to link unlikely relatives," SN: 1/6/01, p. |
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