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The definitive edition of one of the most important scientific
books of the twentieth century, setting out the conceptual
structure underlying evolutionary biology. This classic work by
Julian Huxley, first published in 1942, captured and synthesized
all that was then known about evolutionary biology and gave a name
to the Modern Synthesis, the conceptual structure underlying the
field for most of the twentieth century. Many considered Huxley's
book a popularization of the ideas then emerging in evolutionary
biology, but in fact Evolution: The Modern Synthesis is a work of
serious scholarship that is also accessible to the general educated
public. It is a book in the intellectual tradition of Charles
Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley-Julian Huxley's grandfather, known
for his energetic championing of Darwin's ideas. A contemporary
reviewer called Evolution: The Modern Synthesis "the outstanding
evolutionary treatise of the decade, perhaps the century." This
definitive edition brings one of the most important and successful
scientific books of the twentieth century back into print. It
includes the entire text of the 1942 edition, Huxley's introduction
to the 1963 second edition (which demonstrates his continuing
command of the field), and the introduction to the 1974 third
edition, written by nine experts (many of them Huxley's associates)
from different areas of evolutionary biology.
Prominent evolutionary biologists and philosophers of science
survey recent work that expands the core theoretical framework
underlying the biological sciences. In the six decades since the
publication of Julian Huxley's Evolution: The Modern Synthesis, the
spectacular empirical advances in the biological sciences have been
accompanied by equally significant developments within the core
theoretical framework of the discipline. As a result, evolutionary
theory today includes concepts and even entire new fields that were
not part of the foundational structure of the Modern Synthesis. In
this volume, sixteen leading evolutionary biologists and
philosophers of science survey the conceptual changes that have
emerged since Huxley's landmark publication, not only in such
traditional domains of evolutionary biology as quantitative
genetics and paleontology but also in such new fields of research
as genomics and EvoDevo. Most of the contributors to Evolution, the
Extended Synthesis accept many of the tenets of the classical
framework but want to relax some of its assumptions and introduce
significant conceptual augmentations of the basic Modern Synthesis
structure-just as the architects of the Modern Synthesis themselves
expanded and modulated previous versions of Darwinism. This
continuing revision of a theoretical edifice the foundations of
which were laid in the middle of the nineteenth century-the
reexamination of old ideas, proposals of new ones, and the
synthesis of the most suitable-shows us how science works, and how
scientists have painstakingly built a solid set of explanations for
what Darwin called the "grandeur" of life. Contributors John
Beatty, Werner Callebaut, Jeremy Draghi, Chrisantha Fernando,
Sergey Gavrilets, John C. Gerhart, Eva Jablonka, David Jablonski,
Marc W. Kirschner, Marion J. Lamb, Alan C. Love, Gerd B. Muller,
Stuart A. Newman, John Odling-Smee, Massimo Pigliucci, Michael
Purugganan, Eoers Szathmary, Gunter P. Wagner, David Sloan Wilson,
Gregory A. Wray
This reference work provides an comprehensive and easily accessible
source of information on numerous aspects of Evolutionary
Developmental Biology. The work provides an extended overview on
the current state of the art of this interdisciplinary and dynamic
scientific field. The work is organized in thematic sections,
referring to the specific requirements and interests in each
section in far detail. "Evolutionary Developmental Biology - A
Reference Guide" is intended to provide a resource of knowledge for
researchers engaged in evolutionary biology, developmental biology,
theoretical biology, philosophy of sciences and history of biology.
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