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Stephen, Jay Gould. “The Structure of Evolutionary Theory” Online Article. Web, Belknap Press 21 March, 2002. Web. 12 December 2016.
In the article, Stephen Jay G. “The Structure of Evolutionary Theory” Stephen describes the content and discusses the history and origins of the three core commitments of classical Darwinism: that natural selection works on organisms, not genes or species; that it is almost exclusively the mechanism of adaptive evolutionary change; and that these changes are incremental, not drastic. Next, he examines the three critiques that currently challenge this classic Darwinian edifice: that selection operates on multiple levels, from the gene to the group; that evolution proceeds by a variety of multiples. This article
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