Book ID: CBB617122717

Challenging the Modern Synthesis: Adaptation, Development, and Inheritance (2017)

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Since its origin in the early 20th century, the Modern Synthesis theory of evolution has grown to become the orthodox view on the process of organic evolution. Its central defining feature is the prominence it accords to genes in the explanation of evolutionary dynamics. Since the advent ofthe 21st century, however, the Modern Synthesis has been subject to repeated and sustained challenges. These are largely empirically driven. In the last two decades, evolutionary biology has witnessed unprecedented growth in the understanding of those processes that underwrite the development oforganisms and the inheritance of characters. The empirical advances usher in challenges to the conceptual foundations of evolutionary theory. The extent to which the new biology challenges the Modern Synthesis has been the subject of lively debate. Many current commentators charge that the newbiology of the 21st century calls for a revision, extension, or wholesale rejection of the Modern Synthesis Theory of evolution. Defenders of the Modern Synthesis maintain that the theory can accommodate the exciting new advances in biology. The original essays collected in this volume survey thevarious challenges to the Modern Synthesis arising from the new biology of the 21st century. The authors are evolutionary biologists, philosophers of science, and historians of biology from Europe and North America. Each of the essays discusses a particular challenge to the Modern Synthesistreatment of inheritance, development, or adaptation. Taken together, the essays cover a spectrum of views, from those that contend that the Modern Synthesis can rise to the challenges of the new biology, with little or no revision required, to those that call for the abandonment of the ModernSynthesis. The collection will be of interest to researchers and students in evolutionary biology, and the philosophy and history of the biological sciences.

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Review Karen Kovaka (2019) Review of "Challenging the Modern Synthesis: Adaptation, Development, and Inheritance". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 289-291). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Braeckman, Johan
Morgan, David
Van de Peer, Yves
Yagel Gouvêa, Devin Susanne
Stuart Mathieson
De Tiège, Alexis
Concepts
Evolution
Controversies and disputes
Philosophy of science
Modern Synthesis (biology)
Science and religion
Creationism
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
United States
London (England)
Institutions
Victoria Institute
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