Who concluded that the Darwinian assumption of a "struggle for existence" among?

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microbes in nature is "totally unjusified".

As to be expected from some. Personal put downs in lack of an informed response.

Here's a hint. It was a nobel laureate.

Jezza: argumentitive. Forgiveness or the lack of isn't has no relevance nor does the core temperature of my heart. But if you really have such a thermometer. Kudos.

My typo's are my undoing.

It was an abreviation. The quote went as follows "The concept of the struggle for existence has been applied to microbial interelationships in nature in a manner comparable to the effects of assigned by Darwin to higher forms of life. It has also been suggested that the ability of a microbe to produce an antibiotic substance enables it to survive in competition for space and for nutrients with other microbes. Such assumptions appear to be totally unjustified on the basis of existing knowledge...all the discussion of a struggle for existence, in which antibotics are supposed to play a part, is merely a figment of the imagination, and an appeal to the melodramtic rather than the factual.

article was from the proceedings of the society for experimental biology and medicine 55 (1944) 66-69 "The role of antibiotics in natural processes" Selman A. Waksman

Answer 1

It was Selman Waksman.

Your Quote Mine is http://www.theoryofevolution.us/

Your question is a misquote of a misquote of a 50 year old article in Italian.

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1944 is even older than I thought. He is saying that current (i.e. 1944) knowledge wasn't adequate to make the inference that natural antibiotics conferred a survival advantage on microbes. The dot dot dot after that is suspicious, and suggests the statement has been excised from its context.

I can't comment on whether 1944 era knowledge was adequate or not to make that inference. It certainly is, sixty three years later.

Answer 2

I think that has been proved wrong, Doctors now are more hesitant to prescribe antibiotics because bacteria can adapt so quickly to them becoming resistant.

Answer 3

yes microbes in nature is justified. nice quote moron.

If one did well it created larger numbers. there. larger numbers = safer.

and the person who said darwan was nutz? I laugh at you. your foolish religion is more screwy than a nut house.

Answer 4

ladies and gentlemen mental christian on the jeremy kyle show

lol

as to be expected from a christian - no room in their cold heart for forgiveness

Answer 5

I'm confused by your question -- - what does "justice" have to do with it?


Famously by Eastwood: "'Deserves' got nuthin to do with it"

Answer 6

perhaps your question might be more well phrased sorry I don't understand it .

Answer 7

I think Darwin was nutz...