


1:35 am
February 22, 2010

This article trumpets a startling lead: "Charles Darwin may have been wrong when he argued that competition was the major driving force of evolution."
"Space is the final frontier for evolution, study claims" -BBC News
Professor Michael Benton of Bristol University makes his pot-stirring mission abundantly clear by stating outright "Competition did not play a big role in the overall pattern of evolution.”
This conclusion is not supported by the original paper (written by his grad students) or its data, and I feel comfortable saying that Professor Benton is deliberately misrepresenting modern evolutionary theory in order to create fake controversy and gain…
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