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Up with Diversity
Talk on Evolution Sheds New Light On Darwinian Theory |
By Sarah Schmelling |
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Dr. Joan Roughgarden takes issue with Darwin. |
Dr. Joan Roughgarden is so bold an evolutionary biologist, she’s willing to take on Charles Darwin. “I invite you to consider the possibility that the whole sexual selection theory should be junked, lock, stock and barrel,” she said about one of the famous naturalist’s tenets to an NIH audience recently. “And we should rethink sex, gender and sexuality from the ground up.”This idea may dismay some people, she conceded during her talk, part of a four-speaker lecture series on Evolution and Medicine sponsored by NIGMS. But she believes challenging the long-held theory can be viewed positively. “It means we are in a time when we can do some research that pertains to the foundational structure of evolutionary biology.” more…
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