The concept of evolvability emerged in the early 1990s and soon became fashionable as a
label for different streams of research in evolutionary biology. In evolutionary quantitative …

In Pragmatism's Evolution, Trevor Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of
pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological debates in the late 1800s …

Darwinism, Democracy, and Race examines the development and defence of an argument
that arose at the boundary between anthropology and evolutionary biology in twentieth …

Recent experiments show that adaptive Darwinian evolution in one environment can lead to
the emergence of multiple new traits that provide no immediate benefit in this environment …

High-level debates in evolutionary biology often treat the Modern Synthesis as a framework
of population genetics, or as an intellectual lineage with a changing distribution of beliefs …

This book offers a novel defence of a highly contested philosophical position: biological
natural kind essentialism. This theory is routinely and explicitly rejected for its purported …

This is the second of a two-part essay on the history of debates concerning the creativity of
natural selection, from Darwin through the evolutionary synthesis and up to the present. In …

Evolutionary quantitative genetics (EQG) emerged as a research paradigm in the 1980s
based on operational tools for studying variation, inheritance, and selection in field and lab …

This chapter deconstructs the framework of the so-called Extended Evolutionary Synthesis—
in the sense of separating and analyzing its fundamental assumptions—to highlight its …

While the notion of chance has been central in discussions over the probabilistic nature of
natural selection and genetic drift, its role in the production of variants on which populational …