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I rather dislike posting to "Free For All" topics, but this seemed to be the place for it...{Added by edit: The reason I'm posting this, it that, in Salty topics past, there was some huhbub over what is a "Darwinist"}Something I just stumbled onto at Talk Origins (not the Terry one).http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/anti-darwin.htmlThis paper has an outline of a definition of what Darwinism is, and a listing of alternate evolutionary theories.Also, alternatives to Darwinism are listed (and discussed) there:

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Special creationism (sometimes just "Creationism" [5], the view that species are created "specially" in each case): challenges 1, 2, 6 and usually 8. Examples: the last biologist to be a special creationist was Louis Agassis (d. 1873) [6].

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Orthogenesis (linear evolution, aka Great Chain of Being thinking, the view that evolution proceeds in direct lines to goals, also sometimes called teleological evolution or progressionism): challenges 8 and 9. Examples: Lamarck, Ngeli, Eimer, Osborn, Severtsov, Teilhard. Often found as vague statements in more orthodox biology (in terms like "primitive" and "advanced" forms instead of the usual meanings in biology of older and derived) [7].

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Neo-Lamarckism (aka Instructionism, the view that the environment instructs the genome, and/or the view that changes occur to anticipate the needs of the organism): challenges 7b, 8 and 9. Examples: Darwin, Haeckel, ED Cope, S Butler, Kropotkin, GBS Shaw, Kammerer, Koestler, E Steele [8], Goldschmidt [9]

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Process Structuralism (aka Formalism, aka Laws of growth tradition, also called Naturphilosophie, deriving from Goethe and Oken - the view that there are deep laws of change that determine some or all of the features of organisms): challenges 3 to 5 and 10. Examples: Goethe, Geoffroy, D'Arcy Thompson [10] , Goodwin, Salthe, Gould, Lvtrup [11]

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Saltationism (in texts before about 1940 also called "Mutationism" or "Mutation Theory", the view that changes between forms occur all-at-once or not at all): challenges 11, and sometimes 2. Examples: Galton, TH Huxley, De Vries, TH Morgan, Johannsen, Goldschmidt [12]

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All that, and more there.Moose------------------
Professor, geology, Whatsamatta U
Evolution - Changes in the environment, caused by the interactions of the components of the environment.
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I have a Calico cat. What's the story? As I understand it, all Calico's are female.Moose

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...is that I hate cats.

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You better watch out about such statements. Rumor has it, both Percy and I are "cat people".Moose

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...people who could transform into black panthers?

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Maybe that explains my radical social/political views. I still can't get down and get funky though.Moose

Sex wars drive evolution - Speciation can occur rapidly in large populations through increased sexual conflict
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...show that increased sexual conflict caused a rapid increase in behavioral reproductive isolation, especially in larger, high-density populations, confirming the importance of conflict as a driving force in evolution.

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Moose