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When confronted with the increasing number of publications reviving Baldwin’s organic selection, many authors—particularly Neo-Darwinists —raise the following question: why do we need organic selection if Neo-Darwinism and natural selection are enough to explain the evolutionary phenomena seen in nature?
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Diogo, R. (2017). Evolutionary Trends, Sexual Selection, Gene Loss, Mass Extinctions, “Progress”, and Behavioral Versus Ecological Inheritance and Novelties Versus Stability. In: Evolution Driven by Organismal Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47581-3_4
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