[Rduke55]

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I found myself very much agreeing with Dawkins/Dennett in the battle

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I think that battle, while popularizing the science of evolution debates, was bad b/c people started toeing the party line and dismissed the other side's points completely. I've always been a Gould fan (not in the sense of the battle sides) and I see people not thinking about ideas of constraint, spandrels, and a more limited role of adaptation in evolution just because they plant themselves in the Dawkins/Dennett camp. Although punctuated equilibria seems to still be popular - often for the wrong reasons though.

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I may be overexposed to their position.

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This is what made me post the OP. I was out with some other evolution people the other night and we were talking about how overexposed Dawkins was. I've been noticing in the forum that people seem pretty up on his favorite aspects of evolution but seem to lack some of the fundamentals, other ideas, etc.

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I rather enjoy Gould's style and his ability to make sentences so long I can get through a cup of coffee on some of them ( in more ways than one).

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I love a lot of Gould's stuff and I was really disappointed in SOET. Near unreadable. He out-Goulded himself.