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The Curious Disconnect: Project Index

The Curious Disconnect is the blog of evolutionary biologist Arlin Stoltzfus, available here at www.molevol.org/cdblog. (Arlin Stoltzfus, ©2010)

Posts in order

  1. The Curious Disconnect: Introduction (March 19, 2010).  
  2. The Mutationism Myth 1. The Monk's Lost Code and the Great Confusion (March 29, 2010) describes how the mutationism story is told in books and articles.
  3. Theory1 vs Theory2 (April 13, 2010) explores a hidden distinction that will prove very useful later. 
  4. The Mutationism Myth, 2. Revolution (April 30, 2010) will show you how to think about evolution the way Darwin did. 
  5. The Mutationism Myth, 3. Foundations of Evolutionary Genetics (May 19, 2010) shows some of the synthetic thinking of the Mendelians. 
  6. The Mutationism Myth, 4. Mendelian Heterodoxies (May 25, 2010) explains their views of mutation as a source of initiative, discontinuity, creativity and direction. 
  7. The Mutationism Myth, 5.  The Restoration (June 14, 2010) tells how the Modern Synthesis restored "Darwinism", at least in name.  

Contributor projects

eventually I hope to stimulate some student projects, but this hasn't happened yet.  

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