The extended evolutionary synthesis: its structure, assumptions and predictions
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Scientific activities take place within the structured sets of ideas and assumptions that define a field and its practices. The conceptual framework of evolutionary biology emerged with the Modern Synthesis in the early twentieth century and has since expanded into a highly successful research program to explore the processes of diversification and adaptation. Nonetheless, the ability of that framework satisfactorily to accommodate the rapid advances in developmental biology, genomics and ecology has been questioned. We review some of these arguments, focusing on literatures (evo-devo, developmental plasticity, inclusive inheritance and niche construction) whose implications for evolution can be interpreted in two ways—one that preserves the internal structure of contemporary evolutionary theory and one that points towards an alternative conceptual framework. The latter, which we label the ‘extended evolutionary synthesis' (EES), retains the fundaments of evolutionary theory, but differs in its emphasis on the role of constructive processes in development and evolution, and reciprocal portrayals of causation. In the EES, developmental processes, operating through developmental bias, inclusive inheritance and niche construction, share responsibility for the direction and rate of evolution, the origin of character variation and organism–environment complementarity. We spell out the structure, core assumptions and novel predictions of the EES, and show how it can be deployed to stimulate and advance research in those fields that study or use evolutionary biology.
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- Authors
- Laland, K. N., Uller, T., Feldman, M. W., Sterelny, K., Müller, G. B., Moczek, A., Jablonka, E., & Odling-Smee, J.
- Affiliations
- University of St Andrews (GB)
- Lund University (SE)
- Stanford University (US)
- Australian National University (AU)
- University of Vienna (AT)
- Indiana University Bloomington (US)
- Tel Aviv University (IL)
- Mansfield College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Corresponding author
- Laland, Kevin N.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Publisher
- The Royal Society
- Published
- 2015-08-22
- Volume
- 282
- Issue
- 1813
- Pages
- 20151019
- ISSN
- 0080-4649 (ISSN-L)
- 0962-8452
- 1471-2954
- PMC
- PMC4632619
- OpenAlex
- W2103794982
- Cited by
- 1,399
- References
- 175
- Citations by year
- 2026: 90 · 2025: 99 · 2024: 129 · 2023: 179 · 2022: 148 · 2021: 149 · 2020: 189 · 2019: 136 · 2018: 106 · 2017: 105 · 2016: 57 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 41.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Lund University Publications (Lund University) (submittedVersion)
- ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy and History of Science
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Language and cultural evolution
- Keywords
- Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Modern Synthesis, evolutionary developmental biology, developmental plasticity, niche construction, developmental bias, evolutionary theory
- MeSH terms
- Archaea, Ecology, Biological Evolution, Models, Biological, Developmental Biology, Bacterial Physiological Phenomena, Genomics, Eukaryota
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