At the heart of is the argument that variation, and not natural selection, drives evolution.
It has been an interesting, and somewhat salutary, experience to learn once more how nervous the reporting world is in challenging the scientific establishment. Those approached have said that the general arguments appear sound, but are nevertheless unwilling to review my book, as if nervous of being isolated.
Meanwhile I have allowed my two provisional evolutionary blogs to lie fallow while I pursued all the more conventional avenues. I hope now to start contributing entries more regularly, and to engage readers in discussion as much as possible.
One of the most heartening aspects of attempting to convey a silent gene theory of evolution to is the extremely rapid level of appreciation of the theory amongst the intelligent reading public. For many years I foolishly believed I was the only person in the world who thought that the theory that natural selection drove evolution was highly flawed because it reduced rather than increased variation. Yet almost every person with whom I discuss the theory says they have felt similar doubts about natural selection as an evolutionary theory. It will be interesting to see over the next months whether we can engage with this interested public who, while they accept that natural selection has been the best evolutionary theory on offer, are also discerning enough to be aware of its weaknesses.
