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Preface: The Jurassic Park of Nevada -- Introduction: Looking back -- From God to science -- Lamarck to Darwin -- From Darwin to the new (modern) synthesis -- Epigenetics and the newer synthesis -- ...

As we celebrate another Charles Darwin birthday on February 12, friends of Darwinian evolution will pick up on things he got right, and enemies on what he didn’t. Darwin was a prolific, wide-ranging ...