Extended evolutionary synthesis (Evolution 🧬)

The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis consists of a set of theoretical concepts argued to be more comprehensive than the earlier modern synthesis of evolutionary biology that took place between 1918 and 1942. The extended evolutionary synthesis was called for in the 1950s by C. H. Waddington, argued for on the...

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Reading Baedke et al. (2020) hoping to understand the need for an #ExtendedEvolutionarySynthesis

Baedke, J., Fábregas-Tejeda, A., & Vergara-Silva, F. (2020). Does the extended evolutionary synthesis entail extended explanatory power?. Biology & philosophy, 35(1), 1-22.

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