Simon Conway morris – Darwin’s compass: why evolution is very far from random

‘Darwin’s Compass: Why evolution is very far from random’ By Simon Conway Morris (Cambridge Earth Sciences) Abstract: Received wisdom is that evolution is effectively open-ended and inherently unpredictable. Jared Diamond points to the uniqueness of woodpeckers and extrapolates to the human, while on a yet wider stage Steven J. Gould famously claimed that to re-run […]

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