Evolution - the Extended Synthesis by Massimo Pigliucci, Gerd B. Müller

Evolution - the Extended Synthesis



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Evolution - the Extended Synthesis Massimo Pigliucci, Gerd B. Müller ebook
Publisher: The MIT Press
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0262513676, 9780262513678
Page: 504


Well only time will tell, but again, one thing is certain, and that is, the modern synthesis as taught now is a house of cards. Will the new paradigm as in the proposed extended synthesis (ala the Altenberg 16) answer the questions that need to be answered? A major debate in evolutionary biology circles today is whether the mid-20th century modern synthesis needs to be radically updated. The modern evolutionary synthesis is also incomplete, because it fails to extend the issues of natural selection in an organism's development to their co-evolutionary partners; the microbes. However, long after the automobile had made the horse and carriage obsolete and the association had faded, the concepts of each still defined one another; this synthesis is still present today. I'll cite one of many articles that speak of its demise. Book: Evolution - the Extended Synthesis Author: Massimo Pigliucci, Gerd B. Extended, modeled, synthesized, and/or misled or dictated by the 1940s MS of neo-Darwinism past; especially in our concurrent pop-science or “evolutionary biology” lexicon and literature of today and beyond, worldwide! New innovations evolve from historical, iterative processes. However, the theories of multiplication of species, gradualism, and natural selection were widely debated among scientists until the so-called Modern Evolutionary Synthesis (MS) that developed over the period from 1936 to 1950. The automobile developed out of, and in opposition to, Early automobiles extended and adapted the accustomed 19th century understanding of locomotion. And a consensus is emerging that it's time for change, or an “extended synthesis". And last but not least, according to most evo devo and even a great many mainstream evolutionary biologist, the modern synthesis is effectively dead as a theory.