SPANDRELS BIOLOGY PAPER
Introduction: The paper “The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme” by Stephen J. Gould and Richard C. Lewontin, published in 1979, is recognized as one of the most influential papers in evolutionary biology. The paper critiques the adaptationist approach in evolutionary biology, which assumes that the traits … Read more