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outblaze
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06-17-2003 1:56 PM

In the preface of Ernst Mayr's What Evolution Is, he chides the reductionist manner in which all evolutionary phenomena are reduced to the level of the gene, and states that evolution deals with phenotypes of individuals, with populations, with species; and that it is not "a change in gene frequencies."? I don't quite understand. I thought evolution was "a change in gene frequencies"? Can someone better clarify?
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06-18-2003 1:59 PM

Thanks gents,
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that does indeed clarify it for me
  
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