From the archive: Do we need a new theory of evolution?

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  This is The Guardian.

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  The Guardian Archive, Long Read.

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  Hi, my name is Stephen Barani.

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  I'm a writer and editor at The Guardian, and I'm the author of The Long Read.

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  Do we need a new theory of evolution, published in 2022?

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  So in a previous life, I did a lot of training in biology, microbiology, and biochemistry.

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  So I've always been interested in evolution.

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  It seems like every couple of decades or so,

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  a good number of scientists, researchers in the various fields of biology,

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  sort of come together and get this idea of whether evolution,

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  the core theory of the biological sciences needs a rethink.

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  And so it's something I've been thinking about for a long time.

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  had never gone out and evaluated any of the the sort of claims but you'd see them pop up.

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  There'd been a lot of noise around a group variously calling themselves the new evolutionary synthesis or extended evolutionary synthesis who were making quite controversial claims.

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  that evolution was sort of not a dead theory,

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  but a Haggard theory in need of renewal and that they had the key to that.

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  And both their claims and the sort of vehement denunciations by mainstream evolutionary biologists or sort of other evolutionary biologists are quite strong,

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  quite interesting.

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  And so I thought it might make the basis for a good piece.

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  I'm not sure a huge amount has changed.

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