... Seen like this, there was an insurmountable separation between the germ cells and the rest of the body cells. This separation was called “the Weismann barrier” and is central to the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis. Weismann made evolution become a matter of the germ cells, more specifically of the small particles which he said they contained: the biophores (“carriers of life”). It should be stressed... The veteran evolutionist Ernst Mayr himself wrote about two Darwinian revolutions, the first in 1859, the second being the advent of the “new synthesis”. “The Darwinism accepted since the evolutionary synthesis is best simply called ‘Darwinism’, because in most crucial aspects it agrees with the original Darwinism of 1859.” 28 Really? Is a Darwinism with Malthusianism and without any notion of ...
... unity as well as their difference. The finding must be by a synthesis or an integration and, since development is clearly the law of the human soul, it is most likely to be discovered by an evolutionary synthesis. A synthesis of this kind was attempted in the ancient Indian culture. It accepted four legitimate motives of human living,—man's vital interests and needs, his desires, his ethical and religious ...
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