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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Challenging the Modern Synthesis; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Challenging the Modern Synthesis; Part I: Adaptation and Selection; 1. Natural Selection, Adaptation, and the Recovery of Development; 2. Why Would We Call for a New Evolutionary Synthesis? The Variation Issue and the Explanatory Alternatives; 3. Genetic Assimilation and the Paradox of Blind Variation; 4. Evolutionary Theory Evolving; Part II: Development; 5. Evo-Devo and the Structure(s) of Evolutionary Theory: A Different Kind of Challenge; 6. Toward a Nonidealist Evolutionary Synthesis |
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7. Evolvability and Its Evolvability8. "Chance Caught on the Wing": Metaphysical Commitment or Methodological Artifact?; Part III: Inheritance; 9. Limited Extended Inheritance; 10. Heredity and Evolutionary Theory; 11. Serial Homology as a Challenge to Evolutionary Theory: The Repeated Parts of Organisms from Idealistic Morphology to Evo-Devo; Index |
| Summary |
This volume of original essays surveys recent challenges to the Modern Synthesis theory of evolution that arise from empirical advances in the understanding of evolution since the advent of the 21st century. It presents a spectrum of views by philosophers and biologists on the status and prospects of the Modern Synthesis |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 30, 2017) |
| Subject |
Evolution (Biology)
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Evolution -- Philosophy
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Biology -- Philosophy.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Evolution.
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Biology -- Philosophy
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Evolution (Biology)
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Evolution -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Huneman, Philippe, editor
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Walsh, Denis M., 1958- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780199377183 |
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0199377189 |
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9780199377190 |
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0199377197 |
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0199377170 |
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9780199377176 |
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