From the ‘punctuated equilibrium' of Eldrege and Gould, through
Lewontin's ‘triple helix' and the various visions and revisions
of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) of Laland and others,
both data and theory have demanded an opening-up of the 1950's
Evolutionary Synthesis that so firmly wedded evolutionary theory to
the mathematics of gene frequency analysis. It can, however, be
argued that a single deep and comprehensive mathematical theory may
simply not be possible for the almost infinite varieties of
evolutionary process active at and across the full range of scales
of biological, social, institutional, and cultural phenomena.
Indeed, the case history of 'meme theory' should have raised a red
flag that narrow gene-centered models of evolutionary process may
indeed have serious limitations. What is attempted here is less
grand, but still broader than a gene-centered analysis. Following
the instruction of Maturana and Varela that all living systems are
cognitive, in a certain sense, and that living as a process is a
process of cognition, the asymptotic limit theorems of information
and control theories that bound all cognition provide a basis for
constructing an only modestly deep but wider-ranging series of
probability models that might be converted into useful statistical
tools for the analysis of observational and experimental data
related to evolutionary process. The line of argument in this
series of interrelated essays proves to be surprisingly direct.
General
| Imprint: |
Springer International Publishing AG
|
| Country of origin: |
Switzerland |
| Series: |
SpringerBriefs in Evolutionary Biology |
| Release date: |
May 2023 |
| First published: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Rodrick Wallace
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 155mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
162 |
| Edition: |
1st ed. 2023 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-3-03-129878-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
3-03-129878-0 |
| Barcode: |
9783031298783 |
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