Evolution-the extended synthesis / edited by Massimo Pigliucci and Gerd B. Müller

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Preface.. I INTRODUCTION.. 1 Elements of an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis.. II VARIATION AND SELECTION.. 2 Reconsidering the Importance of Chance Variation.. 3 High-Dimensional Fitness Landscapes and Speciation.. 4 Multilevel Selection and Major Transitions.. III EVOLVING GENOMES.. 5 Integrating Genomics into Evolutionary Theory.. 6 Complexities in Genome Structure and Evolution.. IV INHERITANCE AND REPLICATION.. 7 Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance.. 8 Niche Inheritance.. 9 Chemical, Neuronal, and Linguistic Replicators.. V EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY.. 10 Facilitated Variation.. 11 Dynamical Patterning Modules.. 12 Epigenetic Innovation.. VI MACROEVOLUTION AND EVOLVABILITY.. 13 Origination Patterns and Multilevel Processes in Macroevolution.. 14 Phenotypic Plasticity.. 15 Evolution of Evolvability.. VII PHILOSOPHICAL DIMENSIONS.. 16 Rethinking the Structure of Evolutionary Theory for an Extended Synthesis.. 17 The Dialectics of Dis/Unity in the Evolutionary Synthesis and Its Extensions.. Contributors.. Index

In the six decades since the publication of Julian Huxley's Evolution: The Modern Synthesis, spectacular empirical advances in the biological sciences have been accompanied by equally significant developments within the core theoretical framework of the discipline. As a result, evolutionary theory today includes concepts and even entire new fields that were not part of the foundational structure of the Modern Synthesis. In this volume, sixteen leading evolutionary biologists and philosophers of science survey the conceptual changes that have emerged since Huxley's landmark publication, not only in such traditional domains of evolutionary biology as quantitative genetics and paleontology but also in such new fields of research as genomics and EvoDevo. Most of the contributors to Evolution-The Extended Synthesis accept many of the tenets of the classical framework but want to relax some of its assumptions and introduce significant conceptual augmentations of the basic Modern Synthesis structure-just as the architects of the Modern Synthesis themselves expanded and modulated previous versions of Darwinism. This continuing revision of a theoretical edifice the foundations of which were laid in the middle of the nineteenth century-the reexamination of old ideas, proposals of new ones, and the synthesis of the most suitable-shows us how science works, and how scientists have painstakingly built a solid set of explanations for what Darwin called the "grandeur" of life. eng