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Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution — Wikipedia (en)

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"Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution" is an essay by the evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky, criticizing anti-evolution creationism and espousing theistic evolution. The essay was first published in American Biology Teacher in 1973. Dobzhansky first used the title statement, in a slight variation, in a 1964 presidential address to the American Society of Zoologists, "Biology, Molecular and Organismic", to assert the importance of organismic biology in response to the challenge of the rising field of molecular biology. The term "light of evolution"—or sub specie evolutionis—had been used earlier by the Jesuit priest and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and then by the biologist Julian Huxley. As he had said in his earlier presidential address, "If the living world has not arisen from common ancestors by means of an evolutionary process, then the fundamental unity of living things is a hoax and their diversity is a joke." The unity and diversity of life provide central themes for his essay.

Tema degli esploratori: scienze della vita e salute (deposito sistematico; ricerca «evolutionary biology»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_in_Biology_Makes_Sense_Except_in_the_Light_of_Evolution
Wikidata Q2111298 (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2111298
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