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      O Organism, Where Art Thou? Old and New Challenges for Organism-Centered Biology

      Journal of the History of Biology
      Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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          The extended evolutionary synthesis: its structure, assumptions and predictions.

          Scientific activities take place within the structured sets of ideas and assumptions that define a field and its practices. The conceptual framework of evolutionary biology emerged with the Modern Synthesis in the early twentieth century and has since expanded into a highly successful research program to explore the processes of diversification and adaptation. Nonetheless, the ability of that framework satisfactorily to accommodate the rapid advances in developmental biology, genomics and ecology has been questioned. We review some of these arguments, focusing on literatures (evo-devo, developmental plasticity, inclusive inheritance and niche construction) whose implications for evolution can be interpreted in two ways—one that preserves the internal structure of contemporary evolutionary theory and one that points towards an alternative conceptual framework. The latter, which we label the 'extended evolutionary synthesis' (EES), retains the fundaments of evolutionary theory, but differs in its emphasis on the role of constructive processes in development and evolution, and reciprocal portrayals of causation. In the EES, developmental processes, operating through developmental bias, inclusive inheritance and niche construction, share responsibility for the direction and rate of evolution, the origin of character variation and organism-environment complementarity. We spell out the structure, core assumptions and novel predictions of the EES, and show how it can be deployed to stimulate and advance research in those fields that study or use evolutionary biology.
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                Journal
                Journal of the History of Biology
                J Hist Biol
                Springer Science and Business Media LLC
                0022-5010
                1573-0387
                June 2019
                November 21 2018
                June 2019
                : 52
                : 2
                : 293-324
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                10.1007/s10739-018-9549-4
                30465299
                72c54d28-6614-417f-a763-d733e97b5056
                © 2019

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