In Defense of Evolution: Tautology or Theory?
- 1 March 1977
- journal article
- letter
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 111 (978) , 386-390
- https://doi.org/10.1086/283172
Abstract
The article by R. H. Peters (1976), Vol. 110 of the American Naturalist is criticized. Peters'' definition of evolution is an unrealistic oversimplification in 2 ways. It implies that evolution is only an explanation of past events and is not going on at the present time, and it is applied only to the phylogeny of particular organisms and cannot produce generalizations about the way in which populations of organisms change in response to particular and definable alterations of their environment.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: