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The John A. Davison state of the art?
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Name: John A. Davison
Forum: Boot Camp
Thread: Junk DNA. Is our destiny already pre-programmed?
Post #: 233
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Let me put it this way. I stole, lock stock and barrel, most of my ideas about evolution from my many sources. I am an intellectual thief. I've never had an original idea in my head since I received my Doctorate in 1954.
this is from Moose in postoftheMonth.
This is very significant no matter how one discusses the needed independence in the discussion of artifical and natural selection. I was visiting my Grandma in Fredonia this weekend and found the 1966 Fredonian where my Grandfather SAID that molecular INFORMATION is not needed as to the issue of what is today Gould's refusal to accept consilience BY HAVING TWO NATURAL KINDS. Dawkins on the other hand refuses to accept jumps up to the class level for thinking about it for two minutes.
It is because of the *strong* molecular representations we have and can have here at EVC ,unlike other boards, (which is a good thing) that makes it possible to think that a "great" debate would be appropriate where I think I can say both me and JD would disagree. It was clear EXACTLY why I had problems at Cornell(Stan and I never explicity discussed canalization but Provine thought that the 50s/60s period was necessary to understand embryology. He was wrong. Smallhausen and Waddington started all that that information gains from the knowledge needs today(regardless of computers). Dawkins makes the distinction (between recipe and blueprint embryology) but gives the fox till 2050 for him(RD) to make a recipie criticsm or any energy division no matter how arranged before then. The date WAS 1551 as Gould had it instead.I'll open this parenthetical later if at all). I will address this later if I can exact my hedgehog spines from the opening image in my mind. I however have NOT had my gradfather's thoughts which did not change since 54, for sure!
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