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Down with natural selection?

Perspectives in biology and medicine - 1 Jan 2009

Pigliucci Massimo

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Biologists are increasingly reexamining the conceptual structure of evolutionary theory, which dates back to the so-called Modern Synthesis of the 1930s and 1940s. Calls for an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) cite a number of empirical and theoretical advances that need to be accounted for, including evolvability, evolutionary novelties, capacitors of phenotypic evolution, developmental plasticity, and...

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PMID: 19271349
DOI: 10.1353/pbm.0.0070

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