Creative Destruction: A Reply to Haig

Welch, John J.

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John J. Welch¹⁸

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I am not sure that David Haig and I disagree on very much, partly because my ideas are often copied from him. I strongly agree that discussions about evolutionary theory should try to generate light rather than heat, and I feel that my tone has not always been helpful for this.

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Welch, J.J. (2023). Creative Destruction: A Reply to Haig. In: Dickins, T.E., Dickins, B.J. (eds) Evolutionary Biology: Contemporary and Historical Reflections Upon Core Theory. Evolutionary Biology – New Perspectives on Its Development, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22028-9_7

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