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(Ebook) The Modern Synthesis: Evolution and the Organization of Information by Thomas E. Dickins ISBN 9783030864217, 9783030864224, 3030864219, 3030864227

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Authors:Thomas E. Dickins
Pages:250 pages.
Year:2021
Editon:1
Publisher:Springer, Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Language:english
File Size:3.23 MB
Format:pdf
ISBNS:9783030864217, 9783030864224, 3030864219, 3030864227
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(Ebook) The Modern Synthesis: Evolution and the Organization of Information by Thomas E. Dickins ISBN 9783030864217, 9783030864224, 3030864219, 3030864227

Main subject categories: • Evolutionary theory • Darwinian evolution • Modern synthesis

This book is about evolutionary theory (ET). It deals with aspects of its history to focus upon explanatory structures at work in the various forms of ET - as such this is also a work of philosophy. Its focus lies on recent debates about the Modern Synthesis (MS) and what might be lacking in that synthesis. These claims have been most clearly made by those calling for an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES). The author argues that the difference between these two positions is the consequence of two things. First, whether evolution is a considered as solely a population level phenomenon or also a theory of form. Second, the use of information concepts.

In this book Darwinian evolution is positioned as a general theory of evolution, a theory that gave evolution a technical meaning as the statistical outcome of variation, competition, and inheritance. The MS within biology, has a particular focus, a particular architecture to its explanations that renders it a special theory of evolution.

After providing a history of Darwinian theory and the MS, recent claims and exhortations for an EES are examined that see the need for the inclusion of non-genetic modes of inheritance and also developmental processes. Much of this argument is based around claims that the MS adopts a particular view of information that has privileged the gene as an instructional unit in the emergence of form. The author analyses the uses of information and claims that neither side of the debate explicitly and formally deals with this concept. A more formal view of information is provided which challenges the EES claims about the role of genes in MS explanations of form whilst being consilient with their own interests in developmental biology. It is concluded that the MS implicitly assumed this formal view of information whilst using information terms in a colloquial manner. In the final chapter the idea that the…

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