Spice of Life

Organic Compounds and the Miracle of Smell and Taste

Neo-Darwian evolutionary theorists and human ethologists seem to ignore the fact that reproductive isolation is nutrient-dependent and controlled by the physiology of reproduction. …reproductive isolation may sometimes follow and at other times precede the adaptive divergence of gene pools of populations. — Dobzhansky (1972) Those who cite Dobzhansky’s (1973)  claim that Nothing in Biology Makes Organic Compounds and the Miracle of Smell and Taste