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    Evolution Is Teleological
    Evolution Is Teleological
    Evolution Is Teleological
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    Evolution Is Teleological

    By Dirk Bontes

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    In the modern model of evolution theory the evolution of a protein or of an organ behaves like the accidental changes in a drunk man's walk. Mutations in the hereditary DNA occur due to accidental processes. The natural selection of those mutations also is the result of accidental processes. The rapidity with which these processes occur therefore is indeterminate for each mutation.
    The evolution biologist Stephen Jay Gould too advocated the model of evolution as a drunk man's walk in his book "Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin" (1996).
    Nevertheless paleontologists and evolution biologists discern trends in the evolution of species that are contrary to the drunk man's walk hypothesis.
    This article presents revolutionary arguments that both the occurrence of mutations and their natural selection happen more quickly than is possible in the standard model.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDirk Bontes
    Release dateMay 4, 2014
    ISBN9781311843371
    Evolution Is Teleological
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    Dirk Bontes

    Won some short story contests. Runs another. All Scifi / Fantasy / Horror. Has written some uncompleted science books. Has translated and interpreted Aeneid VI: Aeneid Liber Sextus.

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      Evolution Is Teleological - Dirk Bontes

      Evolution is teleological

      Cover: Anaïd Haen

      Published by Dirk Bontes at Smashwords

      Copyright 2014 Dirk Bontes

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      Contents

      0. Prologue

      1. Introduction

      2. Teleological evolution at the molecular level

      3. The teleological evolution of size

      4. The teleological evolution of perilous ostentatious beauty and of sexual selection

      5. It ain't half hot, Mum. The teleological evolution of the incredibly rich hominids

      6. African locusts and hominid bipedality

      7. Hot brains on the African plains

      7.1. The high giraffe

      7.2. Kinky hominid hair cools brains

      7.3. The striped zebra

      7.4. Cool hominid brains

      7.5. More on hominid brain evolution

      8. The cold Neanderthal brain

      9. The end of the Neanderthals

      10. About the author

      11. Other titles by Dirk Bontes

      12. Connect with me

      Chapter 0. Prologue

      In the modern model of evolution theory the evolution of a protein or of an organ behaves like the accidental changes in a drunk man's walk. Mutations in the hereditary DNA occur due to accidental processes. The natural selection of those mutations also is the result of accidental processes. The rapidity with which these processes occur therefore is indeterminate for each mutation.

      The evolution biologist Stephen Jay Gould too advocated the model of evolution as a drunk man's walk in his book Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin (1996).

      Nevertheless paleontologists and evolution biologists discern trends in the evolution of species that are contrary to the drunk man's walk hypothesis.

      This article presents revolutionary arguments that both the occurrence of mutations and their natural selection happen more

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