But Old Mr. Darwin wasn't to Blame: The Little Book of Evolutionary "Quotes" (also in paperback), as the title suggests and, the quotes within this book should reveal, Charles Darwin wasn't actually to blame for all that ensued in his name. In fact, he was actually quite Lamarckian in his view of evolution; as particularly revealed in later correspondences and editions of 'Origin'. Collectively these quotes form an outline of a narrative that I hope you will find illuminating and get as much from reading them as I did from discovering them. You may even be a little shocked, stunned and occasionally let out a little gasp when you hear what some top scientists have actually said about our modern synthesis. However, these quotes are not simply an exercise in pointing out what is obviously wrong with our modern Neo-Darwinian model of evolution, but, they should also reveal nuggets of an entirely new synthesis that is emerging, or re-emerging out of the ashes of the old paradigm.
Maria Brigit O’Hare is a freelance archaeologist /researcher presently living in Spiddal, Galway, Ireland, with her son and partner. In her spare-time, when she is not researching and writing about her passion - science, she regularly plays Irish Traditional music (concertina) in and around local pubs.
Maria was born and raised in Belfast from the mid-sixties, and after finally escaping from school at the grand age of just 16 without any qualifications, she spent the next 16 years in community arts and performing with various circus groups, until the opportunity finally arose, after building up the necessary entrance qualifications and learning to learn, for her to fulfill a life-long dream of going to university. She attended Queen’s in Belfast in the late nineteen-nineties, with a small child on-board and after receiving a first class honors in archaeology, she was then offered a place on a post-doctoral study course in the same subject, which she successfully completing and was awarded her doctoral degree in 2005.
All the while, Maria has been an avid researcher and has written about anything that seemed to matter or wrote sometimes just to keep sane. Now, all her research and writing experience has converged on a number of books relating to scientific alternatives to Darwinism and because of the controversial nature of the topic, learned how to publish books herself and teach others to do the same.