Mutation and evolution

Tag: mutationism

  • The Mutationism Myth (4): Mendelian Heterodoxies

    This is the 4th in a series of 2010 blogs entitled “The Mutationism Myth” (a more scholarly version of this material ended being published in J. Hist. Biol. by Stoltzfus and Cable, 2014) In this oft-told story (see part 1), the discovery of genetics in 1900 leads to rejection of Darwin’s theory and the rise of “mutationism”,…

  • The Mutationism Myth (3): Foundations of evolutionary genetics

    This is the third in a series of 2010 blogs entitled “The Mutationism Myth” (a more scholarly version of this material ended being published in J. Hist. Biol. by Stoltzfus and Cable, 2014) In this oft-told story (see part 1), the discovery of genetics in 1900 leads to rejection of Darwin’s theory and…