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 …

The last decades have seen frequent calls for a more extended evolutionary synthesis (EES)
that will supposedly overcome the limitations in the current evolutionary framework with its …

The field of the philosophy of biology is flourishing in its aim to evaluate and rethink the view
inherited from the previous century---the Modern Synthesis. Different research areas and …

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Society for the Study of Evolution, I look back
at the so-called “evolutionary synthesis,” to which many of the Society's founders and …

The history of biology is mottled with disputes between two distinct approaches to the
organic world: structuralism and functionalism. Their persistence across radical theory …

Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace are the two co-discoverers of natural selection (Darwin &
Wallace 1858), though, between the two, Darwin is the principal theorist of the notion whose …

Julian Huxley's eclipse of Darwinism narrative has cast a long shadow over the
historiography of evolutionary theory around the turn of the nineteenth century. It has done …

This paper is about the relationship between RA Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural
selection (FTNS) and the two major pieces that Fisher wrote on indeterminism,“ …

Epigenetic concepts are fundamentally shaped by a legacy of negative definition, often
understood by what they are not. Yet the function and implication of negative definition for …

Biological adaptations appear designed for a purpose, and so they result from a “creative
process” almost by definition. Traditional evolutionary theory assigns a special role in this …