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An interdisciplinary course on evolution and sustainability increases acceptance of evolutionary theory and increases understanding of interdisciplinary application of evolutionary theory
BackgroundAlthough evolutionary theory is foundational and integrative in modern biology, there remains widespread lack of acceptance among U.S....
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The teaching of evolutionary theory and the Cosmos–Evidence–Ideas model
Evolutionary theory (ET), as many researchers have pointed out, is one of the cornerstones of Biology, whose understanding facilitates the study of...
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The Darwinian Core of Evolutionary Theory and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Similarities and Differences
In this chapter, we evaluate debates surrounding calls for an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis in light of the Darwinian core of evolutionary theory,...
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How ecological and evolutionary theory expanded the ‘ideal weed’ concept
Since Baker’s attempt to characterize the ‘ideal weed’ over 50 years ago, ecologists have sought to identify features of species that predict...
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The Explanatory Role of Umwelt in Evolutionary Theory: Introducing von Baer’s Reflections on Teleological Development
This paper argues that a central explanatory role for the concept of Umwelt in theoretical biology is to be found in developmental biology, in...
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Incommensurability in Evolutionary Biology: The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis Controversy
Evolutionary biologists today debate whether it is convenient to revise the standard theory of evolution, or if an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis is...
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Thomas S. Kuhn: key to a better understanding of the extended evolutionary synthesis
In recent years, some scholars have explicitly questioned the desirability or utility of applying the classical and “old-fashioned” theories of...
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The Evolutionary Origin(s) of the Umwelt
Although Jakob von Uexküll´s Umwelt theory is not mentioned in Jablonka and Ginsburg´s Target article, von Uexküll´s theory is clearly relevant in...
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The Organism in Evolutionary Explanation: From Early Twentieth Century to the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
In recent years there have been a number of calls for integrating developmental and organismal phenomena into evolutionary theory. This so-called...
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On the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
This chapter outlines a ‘mathematically elegant’ expansion of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis that embeds modalities of direct heritage—from...
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The Structure of Evolutionary Theory: Beyond Neo-Darwinism, Neo-Lamarckism and Biased Historical Narratives About the Modern Synthesis
The last decades have seen frequent calls for a more extended evolutionary synthesis (EES) that will supposedly overcome the limitations in the...
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The Evolving Evolutionary Synthesis
I review the controversy advanced by advocates of an “extended evolutionary synthesis” (EES) in the light of other controversies in evolutionary...
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Ecological and evolutionary mechanisms driving within-patient emergence of antimicrobial resistance
The ecological and evolutionary mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) emergence within patients and how these vary across bacterial infections...
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Is Population Genetics Really Relevant to Evolutionary Biology?
The goal of evolutionary biology is to explain the diversity of the entire sweep of the natural world; population biology only examines tiny slices...
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Evolutionary Biology: Contemporary and Historical Reflections Upon Core Theory
This book is reflecting upon core theories in evolutionary biology – in a historical as well as contemporary context. It exposes the main areas of...
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The biological crop** hypothesis over evolutionary time: an experimental test
Ecological disturbance has been proposed to have a variety of effects on biodiversity. These mechanisms are well studied over shorter timescales...
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Eusociality is not a major evolutionary transition, and why that matters
Major evolutionary transitions (METs) across Earth’s biological history describe fusions of lower-level entities into higher-level individuals...
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The evolutionary drivers and correlates of viral host jumps
Most emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases stem from viruses that naturally circulate in non-human vertebrates. When these viruses cross over...
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Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of multi-strain RNA viruses
Potential interactions among co-circulating viral strains in host populations are often overlooked in the study of virus transmission. However, these...
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Essays on the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis Formalizations and Expansions
From the ‘punctuated equilibrium' of Eldrege and Gould, through Lewontin's ‘triple helix' and the various visions and revisions of the Extended...