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FRONTIERS IN CELLULAR AND INFECTION MICROBIOLOGY
卷 2, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2012.00106
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evolutionary synthesis; variation; natural selection; lateral gene transfer; Darwinian threshold; viruses
The scientific contribution of Darwin, still agonized in many religious c roles, has now been recognized and celebrated by scientists from various disciplines. However, in recent years, several evolutionists have criticized Darwin as outdated, arguing that 'Darwinism, assimilated to the tree of life, cannot explain microbial evolution, or else was not operating in early life evolution. These critics either confuse Darwinism and old versions of neo-Darwinism or misunderstand the role of gene transfers in evolution. The core of Darwin explanation of evolution (variation/selection) remains necessary and sufficient to decipher the history of life. The enormous diversity of mechanisms underlying variations has been successfully interpreted by evolutionists in this framework and has considerably enriched the corpus of evolutionary biology without the necessity to kill the father. However, it remains for evolutionists to acknowledge interactions between cells and viruses (unknown for Darwin) as a major driving force in life evolution.
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