Walsh, D. M. (Author)
The central insight of Darwin's Origin of Species is that evolution is an ecological phenomenon, arising from the activities of organisms in the 'struggle for life'. By contrast, the Modern Synthesis theory of evolution, which rose to prominence in the twentieth century, presents evolution as a fundamentally molecular phenomenon, occurring in populations of sub-organismal entities - genes. After nearly a century of success, the Modern Synthesis theory is now being challenged by empirical advances in the study of organismal development and inheritance. In this important study, D. M. Walsh shows that the principal defect of the Modern Synthesis resides in its rejection of Darwin's organismal perspective, and argues for 'situated Darwinism': an alternative, organism-centred conception of evolution that prioritises organisms as adaptive agents. His book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of evolutionary biology and the philosophy of biology.
...MoreReview Max Dresow (2018) Review of "Organisms, Agency, and Evolution". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 79-82).
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Philippe Huneman;
Denis M. Walsh;
(2017)
Challenging the Modern Synthesis: Adaptation, Development, and Inheritance
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Article
Alexis De Tiège;
Yves Van de Peer;
Johan Braeckman;
Koen B. Tanghe;
(2017)
The Sociobiology of Genes: The Gene’s Eye View as a Unifying Behavioural-Ecological Framework for Biological Evolution
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Article
Alan Grafen;
(2019)
Should we ask for more than consistency of Darwinism with Mendelism?
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Article
John Beatty;
(2019)
The Creativity of Natural Selection? Part II: The Synthesis and Since
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Article
Kutschera, Ulrich;
Niklas, Karl J.;
(2004)
The Modern Theory of Biological Evolution: An Expanded Synthesis
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Article
Hull, David L.;
(2011)
Defining Darwinism
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Chapter
Dupré, John;
(2010)
Postgenomic Darwinism
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Article
Marco Mazzeo;
(2013)
Gli errori di Darwin? Evoluzione e storia naturale
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Karl Edlinger;
(2009)
Evolution als Kollektivprozess
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Depew, David J.;
(2011)
Adaptation as Process: The Future of Darwinism and the Legacy of Theodosius Dobzhansky
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Article
Levit, Georgy S.;
Hossfeld, Uwe;
Olsson, Lennart;
(2014)
The Darwinian Revolution in Germany: From Evolutionary Morphology to the Modern Synthesis
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Book
Samir Okasha;
(2021)
Agents and Goals in Evolution
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Article
Smocovitis, Vassiliki Betty;
(2014)
Disciplining and Popularizing: Evolution and Its Publics from the Modern Synthesis to the Present
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Article
Emily Herrington;
Eva Jablonka;
(2020)
Creating a ‘gestalt shift’ in evolutionary science: Roles for metaphor in the conceptual landscape of the extended evolutionary synthesis (EES)
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Article
Ben Bradley;
(2022)
Natural selection according to Darwin: Cause or effect?
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Ellen Clarke;
(2016)
Levels of Selection in Biofilms: Multispecies Biofilms Are Not Evolutionary Individuals
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Delisle, Richard G.;
(2009)
The Uncertain Foundation of Neo-Darwinism: Metaphysical and Epistemological Pluralism in the Evolutionary Synthesis
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Chapter
Junker, Thomas;
(2002)
Darwinismus oder Synthetische Evolutionstheorie?
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Castrodeza, Carlos;
(2009)
El darwinismo y la cuestión del sentido
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Clarke, Ellen;
(2006)
Anarchy, Socialism and a Darwinian Left
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