Is Man A Subtle Accident
Seventy years after quantum theory revolutionized physics, an oddly analogous change has occurred in the theory of evolution–and it is just beginning to filter down to public understanding. Evidence from fossils now points overwhelmingly away from the classical Darwinism which most Americans learned in high school: that new species evoIve out of existing ones by the gradual accumulation of small changes, each of which helps the organism survive and compete in the environment....