Book ID: CBB325328842

Unity and Disunity in Evolutionary Biology: Deconstructing Darwinism (2024)

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Delisle, Richard G. (Editor)
Esposito, Maurizio (Editor)
Ceccarelli, David (Editor)


Springer Nature


Publication Date: 2024
Physical Details: 591
Language: English

It is not uncommon to see in major areas of research concerned with science that historical studies are accompanied by the rise of complementary or contradictory historiographies. With time, it seems, scholars discover new approaches to study topics, thus questioning old concepts, traditions, periodizations and historical labels. Apparently, this has not been the case in evolutionary thought. In that area, the main historiographic labels such as Darwinian Revolution, Eclipse of Darwinism, and Modern Synthesis have been in place and largely uncontested for about 50 years. Such labels seem to work as irrefutable, and often hidden, premises of many historical reconstructions, philosophical analyses, and scientific conceptualizations. This volume aims to move beyond this state of affair, opening new thinking avenues by revisiting the traditional historiography and laying the groundwork for establishing a "new historiography" that considers the intertwined threads that compose evolutionary biology. Notably, evolutionary studies seem to have been marked by the tension between unification attempts and the proliferation of approaches, methodologies, and styles of thinking. As the contributors to this volume illustrate, research traditions branched off throughout the history of evolutionary thought, before and after Charles Darwin. The resulting complexity challenges traditional thinking categories, throwing a somewhat different light on a more recent label like the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis. More than 40 years after the now classic, The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology (1980), edited by Ernst Mayr and William Provine, the contributors to this volume aim to reevaluate where evolutionary biology stands today.

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Authors & Contributors
Amundson, Ron
Baedke, Jan
Beatty, John H.
Bradley, Ben S.
Caporael, Linnda R.
Depew, David J.
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Biology and Philosophy
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Journal of the History of Biology
Biological Theory
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Springer
The MIT Press
University of Pittsburgh Press
Concepts
Evolution
Darwinism
Modern Synthesis (biology)
Philosophy of biology
Evolutionary developmental biology
Historiography
People
Darwin, Charles Robert
Mayr, Ernst
Bowler, Peter J.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
Places
Germany
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