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Darwinian Fundamentalism (Gould, The New York Review of Books, 1997)

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Stephen Jay Gould's June 1997 essay in The New York Review of Books, restating and extending his critique of gene-centred adaptationism, coining the phrase Darwinian fundamentalism, and naming Richard Dawkins among the targets of the critique.

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Author
Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher
The New York Review of Books
Publication Year
1997
URL
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1997/06/12/darwinian-fundamentalism/
Source Type
magazine
Reliability Tier
1
Primary source for Gould's own side of the debate: his own essay, in his own words, naming his own targets. Read as an argumentative position, not a neutral summary.
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