"Physiology Is Rocking the Foundations of Evolutionary Biology": Another Peer-Reviewed Paper Takes Aim at Neo-Darwinism

An article in the journal Experimental Physiology by the distinguished British biologist Denis Noble has the provocative title, "Physiology is rocking the foundations of evolutionary biology." He argues that "[t]he 'Modern Synthesis' (Neo-Darwinism) is a mid-20th century gene-centric view of evolution, based on random mutations accumulating to produce gradual change through natural selection" but we now know that view is wrong because "genetic change is far from random and often not gradual....