> An alternative to evolution. Hardly. Horizontal Gene Transfer is an important mechanism, especially for bacteria, but only adds an interesting wrinkle to the

> An alternative to evolution. Hardly. Horizontal Gene Transfer is an important mechanism, especially for bacteria, but only adds an interesting wrinkle to the neo-Darwinian modern synthesis (which has been incorporating additional aspects from various subfields of biology episodically since it was first articulated): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_synthesis_(20th_century) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_synthesis_(20th_centu...