As Daniel Witt and David Klinghoffer recently wrote, Oxford University biologist Denis Noble had a nice interview published last month at Variable Minds titled “Science Is Reconsidering Evolution.” It’s getting a lot of attention because he says quite squarely, “The fact is I think neo-Darwinism is dead.” We’ve covered Noble’s views in the recent past and it’s worth noting some highlights from this video. Denying the Selfish Gene Noble strongly disagrees with Richard Dawkins’s ideas about “selfish genes” where “genes created us — body and mind” and “from the genome you’d be able to make” an entire person. Noble thinks this is wrong — because he opposes “scientific reductionism.” Noble notes that in an epilogue to the 40th edition of The Selfish Gene, Dawkins writes, “In some Read More ›
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