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Evolution, the Extended Synthesis
Contributor(s): Pigliucci, Massimo (Editor), Muller, Gerd B. (Editor)
ISBN: 0262513676     ISBN-13: 9780262513678
Publisher: MIT Press
OUR PRICE:   $49.50  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: April 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | Life Sciences - Evolution
- Science | Essays
Dewey: 576.8
LCCN: 2009024587
Series: Mit Press
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.45 lbs) 504 pages
 
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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. M ller, Stuart A. Newman, John Odling-Smee, Massimo Pigliucci, Michael Purugganan, E rs Szathm ry, G nter P. Wagner, David Sloan Wilson, Gregory A. Wray

Contributor Bio(s): Pigliucci, Massimo: - Massimo Pigliucci is Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York.Muller, Gerd B.: - Gerd B. Muller is Professor of Theoretical Biology at the University of Vienna and Chairman of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research. He is a coeditor of Origination of Organismal Form (MIT Press, 2003) and Modeling Biology (MIT Press, 2007).Jablonka, Eva: - Eva Jablonka is Professor at Tel-Aviv University. She is the coauthor of Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life and the coeditor of Transformations of Lamarckism: From Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology, both published by the MIT Press.Lamb, Marion J.: - Marion J. Lamb was Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London, before her retirement. Jablonka and Lamb are also the authors of Epigenetic Inheritance and EvolutionMuller, Gerd B.: - Gerd B. Müller, is Professor of Zoology and Head of the Department of Theoretical Biology at the University of Vienna and President of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research.Newman, Stuart A.: - Stuart Newman is Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy at New York Medical College.Pigliucci, Massimo: - Massimo Pigliucci is Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York.Muller, Gerd B.: - Gerd B. Müller, is Professor of Zoology and Head of the Department of Theoretical Biology at the University of Vienna and President of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research.Wilson, David S.: - David S. Wilson is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University and President of the Evolution Institute.Callebaut, Werner: - The late Werner Callebaut was Scientific Manager of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Vienna, and Visiting Research Professor of Philosophy of Science at University of Vienna.Pigliucci, Massimo: - Massimo Pigliucci is Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York.