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The extended evolutionary synthesis: its structure, assumptions and predictions

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Laland, Kevin N., Uller, Tobias, Feldman, Marcus W., Sterelny, Kim, Müller, Gerd B., Moczek, Armin, Jablonka, Eva, Odling-Smee, John·2015·Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
DOI 10.1098/rspb.2015.1019PMC PMC4632619
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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
DOI
10.1098/rspb.2015.1019
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
FWCI
41.52
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
royalsociety.org/journals/ethics-policies/data-sharing-mining/ (tdm)
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 of Biology and Scientific Explanation
  • 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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