Variationalism and Individualism: Beyond the Modern Synthesis

Increasingly, it is becoming apparent that the processes that occur within individuals are crucially involved in each of the component processes of evolution: development, inheritance, innovation, and adaptive change. Any comprehensive evolutionary theory must reserve a place for the ways in which t...

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Main Author: Walsh, Denis M. 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Mohr Siebeck [2020]
In: Philosophy, theology and the sciences
Year: 2020, Volume: 7, Issue: 2, Pages: 227-252
IxTheo Classification:NBD Doctrine of Creation
TJ Modern history
TK Recent history
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Darwin
B Individual
B Inheritance
B Plasticity
B Development
B Epigenetics
B Evolution
B Modern synthesis
B Variational
B Purpose
B Adaptation
B Novelty
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Summary:Increasingly, it is becoming apparent that the processes that occur within individuals are crucially involved in each of the component processes of evolution: development, inheritance, innovation, and adaptive change. Any comprehensive evolutionary theory must reserve a place for the ways in which the properties that make organisms organisms - their self-regulating, self-synthesising, purposiveness - figure in the evolution of organismal fit and diversity.
ISSN:2197-2834
Contains:Enthalten in: Philosophy, theology and the sciences
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1628/ptsc-2020-0018