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Extending the Evolutionary Synthesis: Darwin’s Legacy Redesigned
ISBN-13: 9781032376899 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 296 str.
The theories of evolution are themselves evolving with new findings and changes in the fundamental underlying concepts. It is true that today's theory, which goes back to Darwin, is persistently successful. But there remain many unanswered questions.
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, which goes back to Darwin, is persistently successful. However, it offers no convincing explanation to many questions, some examples of which are as follows: What forms of inheritance exist besides genetics; how complex variations, especially evolutionary innovations such as bird feathers and turtle shells, arise; how the environment affects the evolution of species and is changed by them simultaneously; and why the evolution of birds, corals, and human culture is not explainable by natural selection alone.
Scientific findings of the last decades require continuous rethinking and integration of new data and concepts into the theory of evolution.
Key Features
- Comprehensively explains the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
- Includes interviews with world-leading evolutionary biologists
- Outlines the historical development of evolutionary theory with explanations of open, unanswered questions
- Understandably written for a broad audience
Related Titles
Bard, J. Evolution: The Origins and Mechanisms of Diversity (ISBN9781032138480)
Johnson, N. Darwin’s Reach: 21st Century Applications of Evolutionary Biology (ISBN 9781138584727)
About the author
Axel Lange has been working on unanswered questions in evolutionary theory for more than two decades. In 2018, he received his PhD in evolutionary biology with distinction from the University of Vienna for research on the evolutionary development of the vertebrate limb.
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