@arvidagren Also, our published historical work below makes similar points to Gayon but is more focused on debunking familiar Synthesis stories (and on rehabilitating the mutationists and their positive contributions to evo discourse) https://t.co/mvlVDs
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Morgan & colleagues working on laboratory populations of fruit flies underestimated the importance of standing genetic variation in natural populations. I note that some biologists want to rewrite history and argue for revival of mutationism: https:/
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@bat020 Interesting. Although Shapiro has some specific axes to grind. The best answer to the headline q of how synthesis-era biogists got it wrong are found in these two great papers on the agressive reification of natural selection https://t.co/HjZKhBMYW
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Mendelian-Mutationism: The Forgotten Evolutionary Synthesis https://t.co/M5dvttIS4J