Response from Shanahan: Evolution is Opportunistic, Not Directional

Timothy Shanahan

doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2001)051[0006:RFS]2.0.CO;2

Response from Shanahan: Evolution is Opportunistic, Not Directional

Timothy Shanahan

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In my essay “Evolutionary Progress?” (Shanahan 1999), I suggested that “the debate about evolutionary progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.” Evidently some biologists feel otherwise.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	3
Journal	BioScience
Volume	51
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2001)051[0006:RFS]2.0.CO;2
State	Published - Jan 2001

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Response from Shanahan: Evolution is Opportunistic, Not Directional

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