It Is Curious How Often Erroneous Theories

The History Of Science Knows Scores Of Instances Where An Investigator Was In The Possession Of All The Important Facts For A New Theory But Simply Failed To Ask The Right Questions.

Indeed, I Was Unable To Find Any Evidence Whatsoever Of The Occurrence Of A Drastic Evolutionary Acceleration And Genetic Reconstruction In Widespread, Populous Species.

Two Forms Or Species Are Sympatric, If They Occur Together, That Is If Their Areas Of Distribution Overlap Or Coincide. Two Forms (or Species) Are Allapatric, If They Do Not Occur Together, That Is If They Exclude Each Other Geographically. The Term Allopatric Is Primarily Useful In Denoting Geographic Representatives.

Biology Can Be Divided Into The Study Of Proximate Causes, The Study Of The Physiological Sciences (broadly Conceived), And Into The Study Of Ultimate (evolutionary) Causes, The Subject Of Natural History.

There Is More To Biology Than Rats, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis, And E. Coli.