Challenging the Modern Synthesis: Adaptation, Development, and Inheritance

ISBN-13: 9780199377176 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 368 str.

Philippe Huneman; Denis Walsh

Opis

This volume of original essays surveys recent challenges to the Modern Synthesis theory of evolution that arise from empirical advances in the understanding of evolution since the advent of the 21st century. It presents a spectrum of views by philosophers and biologists on the status and prospects of the Modern Synthesis.

Recenzje

represents the latest in a growing body of literature ... The contributors to these sections develop a wide range of ideas about the past, present, and future of evolutionary theory.

O autorze

Philippe Huneman is CNRS Research Professor and Professor of Philosophy at LInstitut dHistoire et de Philosophie des Science et des Technique, Université Paris I SorbonneWalsh: Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Biology in the Department of Philosophy, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology and the Department of Ecology and evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto Denis M. Walsh received a PhD in Biology at McGill University and a PhD in Philosophy at King's College London. He held the Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Biology at the University of Toronto until 2015.