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From the description of \\\"type two\\\" Darwinism in the main body of the article:
\\\"...and that evolution happens by itself when it\\\'s necessary for survival (assuming some beneficial mutations randomly occur; they will, given enough time, and relatively recent discoveries seem to point that environmental changes actually accelerate this), and when it isn\\\'t happening, it\\\'s because it isn\\\'t needed.\\\"
This is actually a very Lamarckian idea. Strictly speaking, evolution occurs constantly. In a stable environment, it will be limited to \\\'\\\'genetic drift\\\'\\\', changes in traits that don\\\'t influence survivability or in non-coding sequences of DNA. In a changing environment, evolution will only occur if the appropriate mutations take place (unlikely, since mutations occur at a relatively constant rate-- unless that \\\"recent evidence\\\" is from the last year or two, in which case I\\\'d like to see it) or if the necessary genes are already part of the population\\\'s gene pool; otherwise, extinction occurs instead. I didn\\\'t want to go chopping up an article someone else wrote, but I thought this was at least worth mentioning.
From the description of \\\"type two\\\" Darwinism in the main body of the article:
\\\"...and that evolution happens by itself when it\\\'s necessary for survival (assuming some beneficial mutations randomly occur; they will, given enough time, and relatively recent discoveries seem to point that environmental changes actually accelerate this), and when it isn\\\'t happening, it\\\'s because it isn\\\'t needed.\\\"
This is actually a very Lamarckian idea. Strictly speaking, evolution occurs constantly. In a stable environment, it will be limited to \\\'\\\'genetic drift\\\'\\\', changes in traits that don\\\'t influence survivability or in non-coding sequences of DNA. In a changing environment, evolution will only occur if the appropriate mutations take place (unlikely, since mutations occur at a relatively constant rate-- unless that \\\"recent evidence\\\" is from the last year or two, in which case I\\\'d like to see it) or if the necessary genes are already part of the population\\\'s gene pool; otherwise, extinction occurs instead. I didn\\\'t want to go chopping up an article someone else wrote, but I thought this was at least worth mentioning.
