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[Richard Jensen]

RE John Grehan's last posting:

With all due respect, please consult some of the better current general
texts or evolution texts or ecology texts.  The outline you have provided
for evolution is a wonderfully simplified version of the basic model, but
the exceptions (e.g., genetic drift, etc.) are fully discussed in the
literature.  In fact, one of the things I enjoy about teaching general
biology is the opportunity to present students with the classical
Darwinian model and then take the various points and see how what we
continue to learn allows us to refine our understanding of these points as
well as revise our overall view of evolutionary mechanisms.


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