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Evolutionary Biology: Contemporary and Historical Reflections Upon Core Theory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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Evolutionary Biology: Contemporary and Historical Reflections Upon Core Theory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Series: Evolutionary Biology - New Perspectives on Its Development, 6
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This book is reflecting upon core theories in evolutionary biology
- in a historical as well as contemporary context. It exposes the
main areas of interest for discussion, but more importantly draws
together hypotheses and future research directions. The Modern
Synthesis (MS), sometimes referred to as Standard Evolutionary
Theory (SET), in evolutionary biology has been well documented and
discussed, but was also critically scrutinized over the last
decade. Researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds have
claimed that there is a need for an extension to that theory, and
have called for an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES). The book
starts with an introductory chapter that summarizes the main points
of the EES claim and indicates where those points receive treatment
later in the book. This introduction to the subjects can either
serve as an initiation for readers new to the debate, or as a guide
for those looking to pursue particular lines of enquiry. The
following chapters are organized around historical perspectives,
theoretical and philosophical approaches and the use of specific
biological models to inspect core ideas. Both empirical and
theoretical contributions have been included. The majority of
chapters are addressing various aspects of the EES position, and
reflecting upon the MS. Some of the chapters take historical
perspectives, analyzing various details of the MS and EES claims.
Others offer theoretical and philosophical analyses of the debate,
or take contemporary findings in biology and discuss those findings
and their possible theoretical interpretations. All of the chapters
draw upon actual biology to make their points. This book is written
by practicing biologists and behavioral biologists, historians and
philosophers - many of them working in interdisciplinary fields. It
is a valuable resource for historians and philosophers of biology
as well as for biologists. Chapters 8, 20, 22 and 33 are available
open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
License via link.springer.com.
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