I don’t know exactly when things were invented, but just ten off the top of my head: what about intragenomic competition, epigenetics, Price’s Equation, reciprocal altruism, the gene’s-eye-view, multilevel selection, adapted enforcement of boundaries leading to the emergence of cells and multicellular organisms, sociobiology, gene regulatory networks, and the molecular clock as a means of tracking adaptive pressures? And before you say that any of these things were preinvented before 1957, I would like to know if an equally strong argument could be made for the preinvention of punctuated equilibrium.
I don’t know exactly when things were invented, but just ten off the top of my head: what about intragenomic competition, epigenetics, Price’s Equation, reciprocal altruism, the gene’s-eye-view, multilevel selection, adapted enforcement of boundaries leading to the emergence of cells and multicellular organisms, sociobiology, gene regulatory networks, and the molecular clock as a means of tracking adaptive pressures? And before you say that any of these things were preinvented before 1957, I would like to know if an equally strong argument could be made for the preinvention of punctuated equilibrium.