Comment by jononomo
2 years ago
Well, a lot of things don't square well with evolutionary biology, which is why the field is in crisis.
2 years ago
Well, a lot of things don't square well with evolutionary biology, which is why the field is in crisis.
I know evolutionary psychology has been getting a lot of heat, but is evolutionary biology in general in crisis? As far as I know people like Gould weren't rejecting evolution wholesale so much as they were rejecting adaptationism.
Yes. There was a conference on this in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37014923
Very interesting, thanks!