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knightoffaith on Feb 15, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you...

I know evolutionary psychology has been getting a lot of heat, but is evolutionary biology in general in crisis? As far as I know people like Gould weren't rejecting evolution wholesale so much as they were rejecting adaptationism.

jononomo on Feb 16, 2024 [–]

Yes. There was a conference on this in 2016: https://www.quantamagazine.org/scientists-seek-to-update-evo...

You can also read my other comment on this topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37014923

geye1234 on Feb 18, 2024 | [–]

Very interesting, thanks!

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