The seperation, if it did more than preexist ID issues, I caught less with the NOTION of speciation (as there was plenty of disagreement about what a
Drosophila species was anyway in the EVO Community (Will Provine in debate (1996?) did think that it was a point that Phil Johnson admitted the notion of Hawian
Drosophila hence the simple evc equivalence of vertical evolution with speciation (and there are plenty of issues further in evo lit as you do know...))but rather more with a division of horizontal vs vertical EVOLUTION. Since Creos had already asserted that the geocolumn was not veridical (Price, Scopes Trial era creationism) it made sense symbolically to attach the word "vertical" to that aspect of translation in space and form-making that they had disagreed with (Gould's work outside
pure paleontology tries to dismantle nationalistically this significantly American goal directed discourse).
There is no linguistic difficulty using Dobshansky's term "MESOEVOTLUION" here where verity is being speculated on. The version of extra gene frequency issues that this versatility in discussion engenders (niche construction between horizontal micro translations and form-making of any larger level of organization etc) may be new to both evolution in the sense of its only pursing speciation rather than mesoevolution (no matter the ecology)but the actual tissue involved could be informed by DS JUST as Darwin suspected NS VS LAWS OF GROWTH. This would be critical of Gould's attempts to fuse the mismeasure of man AND ontogeny and phylogeny if it was only about the "new information", no matter what that was, but it could also simply indicate that the term "genetic revolution" as used by Mayr for instance was underdetermined.
With the change in policy to study chimp/human DNA in the
next 5 yrs might be making this newer discussion
extantoutside of the middle road I have sketched herein.
This message has been edited by Brad McFall, 04-05-2006 08:58 AM