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Extending the Evolutionary Synthesis: Darwin's Legacy Redesigned

The theory of evolution is itself evolving with new findings and changes in the fundamental underlying concepts. It is true that today's synthetic theory, ...

Supported projects - The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center

Building tools for emerging model systems in development, evolution, and ecology. David Pfennig (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) Armin Moczek ...

(PDF) The emerging structure of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis

The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) debate is gaining ground in contemporary evolutionary biology. In parallel, a number of philosophical standpoints ...

The Modern Synthesis Huxley coined the phrase, the “evolutionary ...

Second, there was the development of a mathematical theory of evolution, classical population genetics, which delimited the major causal factors shaping ...

Towards a new evolutionary synthesis: Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Abstract. New concepts and information from molecular developmental biology, systematics, geology and the fossil record of all groups of organisms, need to be ...

The structure of evolutionary theory: Beyond Neo-Darwinism, Neo ...

... Microevolution, Macroevolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, evolutionary theory, Epigenetics, EES, Developmental biology, Developmental ...

The Guardian has a long article asking if we need a new theory of ...

If plasticity, or epigenetics, or cultural evolution turn out to provide new and useful explanations in evolutionary biology, then they will get ...

Post-Darwinism: The New Synthesis - Metanexus

A review of Ecological Developmental Biology: Integrating Epigenetics, Medicine, and Evolution, By Scott F. Gilbert and David Epel (Sunderland, MA: Sinauer ...

Developmental and Evolutionary Synthesis in the Recent Writings of ...

In Up /rum Eden. (19SI), he used his developmental model as a framework to attempt to m3p the evolution of human cognition and consciousness. Other works on ...

Human reproductive strategies: An emerging synthesis?

In the target article, I presented an updated evolutionary-developmental model of human reproductive strategies, integrating the life history framework of ...

Evolutionary Psychology and Child Development: An Emerging ...

Evolutionary Psychology and Child Development: An Emerging Synthesis. In B. J. Ellis & D. F. Bjorklund (Eds.), Origins of the social mind: Evolutionary ...

Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: A New Synthesis

"Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: A New Synthesis" published on 08 Oct 2018 by Brill.

The case against simplistic genetic explanations of evolution

... Synthesis grew more convinced that development had nothing to offer an understanding of evolution. They stopped short of proclaiming the ...

Evolution: The Extended Synthesis. Book review. - Gert Korthof.

The book is based on the Workshop 'Toward an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis' at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research.

Evo-devo - the synthesis of developmental biology and evolution

The combination of evolutionary research and developmental biology is not new. Darwin observed that there is a relationship between development ...

Variation and Evolution in Plants and Microorganisms: Toward a ...

2000. Variation and Evolution in Plants and Microorganisms: Toward a New Synthesis 50 Years After Stebbins. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https ...

The Evolutionary Synthesis Ernst Mayr and William B. Provine - jstor

developmental biologist, a paleontologist, and a population geneticist. For the historian of science, the events during the synthesis illustrate in the most ...

The Extended Synthesis: Something Old, Something New | Evolution

—Herbert 1965: 321. I studied the development of evolutionary biology as a scientist searching for critical errors in my thinking. Eldredge ( ...

Scientists Seek to Update Evolution | Quanta Magazine

The result is often called the Modern Synthesis, and it has guided evolutionary biology for over 50 years. But in that time, scientists have ...

About the Center - NESCent

The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) is a nonprofit science center dedicated to cross-disciplinary research in evolution.