Lee Spetner

“There is another kind of variation that does not involve the genome at all, and is therefore not heritable. Yet it can…

— Lee Spetner

“The bradys must hold that, on the average, cumulative selection has to add a little information to the genome at each step.…

— Lee Spetner

“To understand Darwin's work, you have to distinguish between his theory of descent and his theory of natural selection. THe full name…

— Lee Spetner

“Life is so diversified that to any statement I could make about living organisms there are exceptions. Because of the many exceptions,…

— Lee Spetner

“Verbal arguments should always be suspect.”

— Lee Spetner

“Information and complexity go hand in hand.”

— Lee Spetner

“There are many examples where species share common plastic traits. What appears to be convergence may just be the plastic response of…

— Lee Spetner

“A mutation that reverses the effect of a previous one (called a back mutation) could at one stroke revive a complex function…

— Lee Spetner

“Only a minority of biologists today hold that the variation of evolution cannot be random. In this point the minority are on…

— Lee Spetner

“Rather than say that the bacterium gained resistance to the antibiotic, we would be more correct to say that it lost its…

— Lee Spetner

“Common sense says that the amazing complexity of life cannot arise out of a random process. The neo-Darwinians use clever arguments to…

— Lee Spetner

“Neo-Darwinians do cite some examples of evolution they claim the NDT explains. Natural selection can indeed account for the replacement of light-colored…

— Lee Spetner

“Dawkins talked about chance, but he didn’t calculate the chance of anything. Nor did he cite anyone who did. He just assumed…

— Lee Spetner

“Dawkins mentioned two mechanisms: the theory of the ‘primeval soup’ and the Cairns-Smith theory. He discussed the latter in some detail. Since…

— Lee Spetner

“Dawkins’s advice shows that he didn’t understand probability. . . . Dawkins said that a creature the lives millions of years would…

— Lee Spetner

“I am suggesting here that organisms have a built-I capability of adapting to their environment. I am suggesting that to the extent…

— Lee Spetner