The core of the article is that the Russians and English viewed evolution differently due to living in vastly different environments.
"An Englishman who had learned the ways of nature in the tropics [and industrial England] was almost bound to view evolution differently from a Russian nurtured on tales of the Siberian wasteland."
Written by Stephen Jay Gould who developed the theory of punctuated equilibrium with Niles Eldredge (among other things.)
"An Englishman who had learned the ways of nature in the tropics [and industrial England] was almost bound to view evolution differently from a Russian nurtured on tales of the Siberian wasteland."
Written by Stephen Jay Gould who developed the theory of punctuated equilibrium with Niles Eldredge (among other things.)