Thanks again, CTD
'Tis the first edition, and the same sentence remains in the sixth also.
My understanding was that the term was used by embryologists (Haeckel among others), first to describe the unfolding of embryos into the individual organisms, and then they applied this to biological change of organisms over time, and that Darwin never liked the term. Certainly I find it too easy to misunderstand the particular meaning used in biology.
Don't shock me like that!
Why? You showed my statement was not correct by the evidence. That is all I ask of any argument where you claim I am wrong -- show me.
Show me that something is missing from modern statements of evolution and the theory of evolution.
Show me that modern versions are watered down, diluted.
Show me that various ways to express the basic meaning of evolution are substantially different.
Show me that the foraminifera do not demonstrate evolution with both change in hereditary traits in populations from generation to generation AND with speciation by division of populations from a parent population to two or more daughter populations that don't interbreed (and yes, they reproduce sexually).
Show me that the structure of my argument from observation to conclusion on
Evolution Theory Explains Diversity is erroneous.
Show me there is more to your argument than assertion.
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