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Old 12-04-2006, 06:38 PM   #58
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Darwin didn't know about genetics. The subject really only started in in the early 1900's. Most of evolutionary theory is based on allele frequency changes, mutation, genetic drift and at least 5 other major topics I forget...
Fair enough. But the general precepts of natural selection and speciation are the same, no? Don't we just have more sophisticated ways of understanding the mechanisms by which those work?
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