Evolution deleted....

Peter Rauch anamaria at GRINNELL.BERKELEY.EDU
Wed Oct 6 15:42:44 CDT 1999


On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Ron Kaneen wrote:
> Evolution is "...heritable change in one or more characteristcs
> in a population or species through time" (Price, P.W., 1996).

> No doubt the decision was political, and since it is the same thing
> according to defenition, it *is* just semantics.

If we're going to be just strictly semantical about it, the
article stated:

"...officials substituted ``change over time''..."

Where does it say anything about "heritable" in that
substitution?

What word will the remove next from the concept?
Peter R.




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