Contributors iv
Introduction
Challenging the Modern Synthesis 1
Denis M. Walsh and Philippe Huneman
Part 1: Adaptation and Selection
Chapter 1: Natural Selection, Adaptation, and the Recovery of
Development David Depew
Chapter 2: Why would we call for a new evolutionary synthesis? The
variation issue and the explanatory alternatives Philippe
Huneman
Chapter 3: Genetic Assimilation and the Paradox of Blind Variation
Arnaud Pocheville and Ètienne Danchin
Chapter 4: Evolutionary Theory Evolving Patrick Bateson
Part 2: Development
Chapter 5: Evo-devo and the Structure(s) of Evolutionary Theory: A
Different Kind of Challenge Alan C. Love
Chapter 6: Toward a Non-Idealist Evolutionary Synthesis Stuart A.
Newman
Chapter 7: Evolvability and its Evolvability Alessandro Minelli
Chapter 8: Chance Caught on the Wing: Methodological Commitment or
Methodological Artifact? Denis M. Walsh
Part 3: Inheritance
Chapter 9: Limited Extended Inheritance Francesca Merlin
Chapter 10: Heredity and Evolutionary Theory Tobias Uller and
Heikki Helanterä
Chapter 11: Serial homology as a Challenge to Evolutionary Theory:
The repeated parts of organisms from idealistic morphology to
evo-devo Stéphane Schmitt
Philippe Huneman is CNRS Research Professor and Professor of
Philosophy at LInstitut dHistoire et de Philosophie des Science et
des Technique, Université Paris I SorbonneWalsh: Canada Research
Chair in Philosophy of Biology in the Department of Philosophy,
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
and the Department of Ecology and evolutionary Biology, University
of Toronto.
Denis M. Walsh received a PhD in Biology at McGill University and a
PhD in Philosophy at King's College London. He held the Canada
Research Chair in Philosophy of Biology at the University of
Toronto until 2015.
"represents the latest in a growing body of literature ... The contributors to these sections develop a wide range of ideas about the past, present, and future of evolutionary theory." -- Karen Kovaka, Metascience
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