The ideology and philosophy of neo- Darwinism which is sold by its adepts as a scientific theoretical foundation of biology seriously hampers the development of science and hides from students the field’s real problems.

Vladimir L. Voeikov
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The ideology and philosophy of neo-Darwinism which is sold by its adepts as a scientific theoretical foundation of biology seriously hampers the development of science and hides from students the field’s real problems. In this quote, Stephen Jay Gould was talking about the theory of evolution as a biological concept. He believed that the "neo-Darwinian paradigm" distorted science because it took a few basic principles and complicated them beyond recognition.

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