In evolutionary biology, controversies, for whatever reason, never seem to die or be resolved; they fade away and can reemerge at any time. One of the oldest controversies in …
Some evolutionary biologists say that the body of knowledge concerning evolutionary processes has simply outgrown the confines of the Modern Synthesis, which was crafted …
The recent reviews in your columns of books by Dennett, Dawkins, and Behe are testimony to the unflagging interest in controversies about evolution. Although such purists as Dennett …
J Hey - Evolutionary Biology: Limits to Knowledge in …, 2000 - Springer
In day-to-day research in evolutionary genetics, it often seems as though our knowledge is bounded. We steadily perceive at least two major limitations on our capacity to understand …
E Jablonka - Biology and Philosophy, 2006 - academia.edu
The ''Modern Synthesis''of evolution, forged in the 1930s and 1940s, is widely acknowledged to have been incomplete. Developmental biology was left out. It was hoped …
DJ Futuyma - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2009 - cell.com
In 1980, when I set out to write a defense of evolution against creationism [1], I discovered that there existed no book for general readers that described the evidence for, and nature of …
There have been periodic claims that evolutionary biology needs urgent reform, and this article tries to account for the volume and persistence of this discontent. It is argued that a …
A Livnat, C Papadimitriou - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2016 - cell.com
In their recent article in TREE [1], Watson and Szathmáry make an invaluable contribution to the study of evolution by opening it to powerful new ideas and, in particular, bringingto wider …
In 2011, James A. Shapiro's Evolution: A View from the 21st Century proposed a revolutionary paradigm for understanding biological evolution: natural genetic engineering …