Re: Especially for Bertvan

Cliff Lundberg (cliff@noe.com)
Tue, 05 Oct 1999 11:06:16 -0700

Bertvan@aol.com wrote:

>Symbiosis--which could also include an element of "will". (Margulis doesn't
>speak kindly of Neo Darwinism, and I suspect most militant neo Darwinists
>remain hostile to holism and the Gaia concept.)

It would be great if someone could define 'Neo-Darwinism' in contrast to
'Darwinism'. Is it just a synonym for 'contemporary evolutionary theory'? Who
are the Neo-Darwinists? Are they simply those who don't have any important
problems with current mainstream theories?

--Cliff Lundberg  ~  San Francisco  ~  cliff@noe.com