Portal talk:Evolutionary biology

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Neodarwinian

I'm currently fascinated by the responses to so-called Neodarwinism. So I noticed that the introduction to this article is phrased as though Neodarwinism is the only scientific paradigm that accounts for evolution. The Neodarwinian account of evolution is presented as an uncontested fact. That is bias.

While I am not a creationists and do not believe in design (intelligent or otherwise) I am persuaded by Lynn Margulis that random mutations in genes do not account for speciation, and that therefore the Neodarwinian account of evolution is at best partial and over-stated.

Neodarwinist fundamentalism is a very interesting phenomenon, and shares many formal features with other kinds of fundamentalism. mahaabaala (talk) 09:39, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Portal updated

This portal was updated and expanded in August 2019:

Overhauled portal with modernized wiki markup using transclusion from articles to display content, which provides readers with current, up-to-date information that is verbatim to that in articles.
Article content from Portal:Evolutionary biology/Selected articles was moved directly into the portal using transclusions.
New content was added to the portal.
The following articles are presently included in the portal:

Article list
1 Charles Darwin 2 Evolution 3 Ediacaran biota 4 Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 5 Evolution of lemurs 6 History of evolutionary thought 7 On the Origin of Species 8 Rotating locomotion in living systems 9 Alfred Russel Wallace 10 Richard Dawkins 11 RNA world 12 Evolutionary history of life 13 Mimicry 14 Natural selection 15 Evolution of sexual reproduction 16 Transmutation of species 17 Extinction 18 Punctuated equilibrium 19 Aggressive mimicry 20 Objections to evolution 21 Genetic drift 22 The Origin of Birds 23 Teleology in biology 24 Adaptation 25 Mutationism 26 Lamarckism 27 How the Snake Lost Its Legs 28 Endless Forms Most Beautiful (book) 29 Evolution of cetaceans 30 Evolution of snake venom 31 Speciation 32 Phylogenetics 33 The Sloshing Bucket Model of Evolution 34 DNA

Additional articles for the portal can be considered from those available in the table listed below. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:18, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Evolutionary biology articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	6	3		3			12
GA	11	17	23	23		1	75
B	5	36	51	58		6	156
C	4	57	95	202		20	378
Start	1	29	105	261		34	430
Stub			13	110		10	133
List	3	3	4	12			22
NA	1	3	5	13	272		294
Assessed	31	148	296	682	272	71	1,500
Unassessed			2	1		28	31
Total	31	148	298	683	272	99	1,531
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 5,078			Ω = 4.29

Nb. Consensus at VPP approved the use of transclusion templates in portals. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 20:28, 14 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]