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Ciência & Educação
Print version ISSN 1516-7313
Abstract
MORENO, Julio Alejandro Castro. Does nothing in Biology make sense except in the light of evolution?. Ciência educ. [online]. 2013, vol.19, n.04, pp.971-994. ISSN 1516-7313.
We criticize the relevance of Dobzhansky’s famous phrase “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution”, which we call the Central Dogma of the Evolutionary Synthesis (DCSE by its initials in Spanish). The first section explains the origin of DCSE and takes up the main points of the article in which Dobzhansky proposed it. The second section develops three points: Does a reflection of how Dobzhansky’s scientific work contradict Mayr’s idea that there are “two biologies”? To what extent it is feasible to argue that the biology’s backbone is evolution? And it then discusses some implications of DCSE for biology’s philosophy and didactics. The conclusions argue that DCSE should be abandoned once and for all.
Keywords : Theodosius Dobzhansky; Evolution; Creationism; Dogma; Darwinism.
