I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species.
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Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.
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Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.
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Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.
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I am convinced that it is the light and the way.
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