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... If there is no consensus view, how can we say it is in need of an update? There was a consensus of what the neo-Darwinian synthesis was, Ernst Mayr discussed it in his book and so did Julian Huxley. It put a primary role for natural selection, mixed with mutation and later genetic drift. ...

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... “the method” being natural selection. The common ancestor was not the first form of life, only the one from which all current life is descended. Ernst Mayr one of the fathers of the Modern Synthesis in his Crafood Lecture put it this way. http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/e36_2/darwin_influence.htm ...

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... in your case you are only moving the problem back. The method by which the common ancestor arrived is no different to how  Drosophila arrived. Ernst Mayr one of the fathers of the Modern Synthesis in his Crafood Lecture put it this way. http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/e36_2/darwin_influence.htm ...

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... of any fundamentalist idea and heat is what you get, as I keep finding out to my cost. Evolutionary theory is a philosophy that even Ernst Mayr, one of the foundling fathers of the modern synthesis himself proudly acknowledged. Canalon When you ask a question that has at it’s root ...

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... that organisms vary randomly and the fittest are then selected by the forces of their environment guides biological thinking to this day. Ernst Mayr (the one of the founding fathers of the Modern Synthesis) in his 1999 Crafoord pride lecture confirms his view that this is so. Darwin introduced ...

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