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The unifying principle of Biology is that all life is evolved life. As part of science’s social contract, the main goal of Biology should be to “put evolution to work” for humanity, which is currently facing existential threats stemming from the combinati
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Salvatore J. Agosta Daniel R. Brooks
The Major Metaphors of Evolution Darwinism Then and Now
Evolutionary Biology – New Perspectives on Its Development Volume 2
Series Editor Richard G. Delisle, Department of Philosophy and School of Liberal Education, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada Editorial Board Members Richard Bellon, Lyman Briggs Coll, Rm E35, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA Daniel R. Brooks, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada Joe Cain, Department of Science and Tech Studies, University College London, London, UK Thomas E. Dickins, Middlesex University, Dep of Psychology, Faculty of Science and Technology, London, UK Rui Diogo, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA Maurizio Esposito, Center for Natural and Human Sciences, Federal University of ABC, Sao Paulo, Brazil Ulrich Kutschera, Institute of Biology, University of Kassel, Kassel, Hessen, Germany Georgy S. Levit, Institute of Biology, University of Kassel, Kassel, Hessen, Germany Laurent Loison, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IHPST), Paris, France Jeffrey H. Schwartz, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Ian Tattersall, Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA Derek D. Turner, Department of Philosophy, Connecticut College, New London, CT, USA Jitse M. van den Meer, Department of Biology, Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Canada
Evolutionary biology has been a remarkably dynamic area since its foundation. Its true complexity, however, has been concealed in the last 50 years under an assumed opposition between the “Extended Evolutionary Synthesis” and an “Alternative to the Evolutionary Synthesis”. This multidisciplinary book series aims to move beyond the notion that the development of evolutionary biology is structured around a lasting tension between a Darwinian tradition and a non-Darwinian tradition, once dominated by categories like Darwinian Revolution, Eclipse of Darwinism, Evolutionary Synthesis, and Post-Synthetic Developments. The monographs and edited volumes of the series propose an alternative to this traditional outlook with the explicit aim of fostering new thinking habits about evolutionary biology, a multifaceted area composed of changing and interacting research entities and explanatory levels. Contributions by biologists and historians/ philosophers are welcomed. Topics covered in the series span from (among many other possibilities): • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
An Overview of Neutralist Theories in Evolutionary Biology Developmental Biology: From Reductionism to Holism and Back Selection Theories Beyond Hard and Soft Inheritance Divergent, Parallel, and Reticulate Evolution: Competing or Complementary Research Programs? The Rise of Molecular Biology: Between Darwinian and Non-Darwinian Biologizing Paleontology: A Tradition with Deep Historical Roots The Darwinian Revolution and the Eclipse of Darwinism: Blurring the Historio
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