[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Whatever happened to random mutation and natural selection?

The evolutionary theories of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) preceeded Darwin's natural selection by more than 50 years. Surely you aren't one of those who thought Darwin was the first to conceive of the idea of evolution, are you?

[colorado tanker]

My high school biology textbook mocked Lamarck; the line basically was how could those people have been so dumb as to believe in that.

After I read The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, I learned it's very dangerous to assume theories currently accepted as correct constitute a full revelation and will never change.