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Response to Denis Noble’s Article “The Illusions of the Modern Synthesis,” Biosemiotics

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The Modern Synthesis (MS) was based on Darwin’s gradualist view of evolution and early twentieth Century Mendelian and population genetics. Although early results in microbial and molecular genetics seemed to solidify MS views through the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology, accepting their basic concepts as permanent truths blinded MS proponents to the importance of incompatible discoveries in the second half of the 20th and early 21st Centuries. Discoveries based largely on the DNA record have provided a radically different view of genome complexity and biologically-mediated evolutionary change.

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Shapiro, J.A. Response to Denis Noble’s Article “The Illusions of the Modern Synthesis,” Biosemiotics. Biosemiotics 14, 73–78 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-021-09409-z

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