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The emergence of Darwinism or what and how Darwin did and did not discover ........... Error!
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How Darwin lead the reader’s by the nose....................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Why were biologists (in contrast to the general public) unhappy with the theory of
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Darwinism fights back – the fitting (but well concealed) answer of the Brno abbot Error!
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Why is nature governed by Mendel’s laws or a little secondary school material won’t
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Science, are you at all normal? ......................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Chapter 4. Formation of differences between species – chance or necessity? .................. Error!
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Darwin’s (almost unknown) theory of the origin of the species ..... Error! Bookmark not
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The part played by chance in making humans human-like (and apes ape-like) ....... Error!
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What do mice do in the park when they have nothing to do? – they drift ................ Error!
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Chapter 5. How are complexity and organization formed in organisms and what does this
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What is complexity? ….hmm, that is quite complex ....... Error! Bookmark not defined.
On the formation of complexity (and organization) through self-organization ........ Error!
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Snow and games – sorting from the standpoint of stability ............ Error! Bookmark not
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On the formation of complexity (and organization) through passive evolution or
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How (and why) should we edit DNA – let’s ask trypanosome ....... Error! Bookmark not
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You can’t knock a wall down with your head (or your back) ......... Error! Bookmark not
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Chapter 6 On the formation of species without the participation of natural selection ...... Error!
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Sympatric speciation – don’t be insulted neighbor, but I won’t reproduce with you Error!
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Allopatric speciation – my mother is crying away over the hills …Error! Bookmark not
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Reproduction isolation while you wait, speciation in a single day . Error! Bookmark not
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How Darwinism survived its own death – frequency-dependent selection and the theory of
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The dove and the hawk or he who plays hasn’t time to get into trouble Error! Bookmark
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The revolution that didn’t happen .................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Formation of the theory of the selfish gene – Darwin, watch out – someone is after your throat
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The selfish gene and the end of bared teeth and bloody talons ....... Error! Bookmark not
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It was only a matter of time or the skeleton in the cupboard of the selfish gene theory ... Error!
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Everything is wrong, let’s go back to the trees ................ Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Neither Darwin nor Dawkins, so what now? ................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Theoretical discussions are all very well, but what does the green tree of life have to say about
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How many genes fit onto the head of a pin and how many are required for one trait?
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And why not simply test it? .............................................. Error! Bookmark not defined.
Darwin’s “sweet” secret ................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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And where does biological evolution come from then? ........... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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And what does paleontological data have to say? .................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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And what does genetic data have to say? ................................. Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Larger is better (and so what?) ......................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
Microevolution is not macroevolution ............................. Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Evolutionary plasticity in experiments performed by Mother Nature .... Error! Bookmark not
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Why are species on ocean islands “strange”? .................. Error! Bookmark not defined.
Asexual species – slower but better ................................. Error! Bookmark not defined.
Why wheat is “spoiled” faster than rye – microevolution of self-pollinating species
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Grafting of tomato plants and the great fraud that maybe wasn’t a fraud after all ... Error!
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Ecological consequences of the theory of frozen plasticity (or farewell to the brave Darwinist
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Why mice haven’t eaten us yet ........................................ Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Beware! Invasion! ............................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined.
A parasite is the one to blame .......................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
Renewed plasticity can be blamed for everything (what else!)....... Error! Bookmark not
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Could the theory of evolutionary plasticity explain the existence of evolutionary trends?
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How the weakling won out over the super-mouse (in species selection) .................. Error!
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The thirty-first (and certainly finally the correct) hypothesis for the formation of
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It’s easy for large species to speciate, isn’t it? ................. Error! Bookmark not defined.
Trends in the world of freezing species ........................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Could the theory of evolutionary plasticity explain the formation and maintenance of altruistic
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In what other way do plastic and frozen species differ? .. Error! Bookmark not defined.
Might there really be group and inter-species selection? . Error! Bookmark not defined.
Farewell to Eugenics! ....................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
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