TY - JOUR
AU - Buth, Donald G.
AB - Syst. ZooL, 29(3), 1980, pp. 300-308 Empirical Evolutionary Research Versus Neo-Darwinian Speculation "Applications of the theory [of natural selection] can canalize the new phenotype so that tell us more about the theory than the world, and it develops in the new and the old envi- do not serve the purpose of efficiently investi- ronment as well (Waddington, 1953, gating the latter ... . Given that the stated pur- 1957:172-175). In other words, the he- pose of most research is the investigation of the world . . . the effort expended on applications of reditary response has changed—at least natural selection would be best spent else- initially as a result of the action of the where—either in other research, or in the at- environment on the epigenetic system. tempt to formulate a more workable theory to re- There is now ample documentation on place Darwin's speculation" (R. H. Brady, 1979:621). the presence of epigenetic changes cor- related with specific environmentally re- Is Darwin's theory a sufficient synthe- lated factors, some with small and some sis of 1) the theory that species change with very large effects, but the ones that into other species and 2) the observation seem to us 
TI - Empirical Evolutionary Research Versus Neo-Darwinian Speculation
JF - Systematic Biology
DO - 10.1093/sysbio/29.3.300
DA - 1980-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/empirical-evolutionary-research-versus-neo-darwinian-speculation-MCGZ8Fjimp
SP - 300
EP - 308
VL - 29
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -