Natural Selection : Revisiting Its Explanatory Role in Evolutionary Biology, ...
by Richard G. Delisle
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Natural Selection : Revisiting Its Explanatory Role in Evolutionary Biology, Hardcover by Delisle, Richard G. (EDT), ISBN 3030655350, ISBN-13 9783030655358, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This book contests the general view that natural selection constitutes the explanatory core of evolutionary biology. It invites the reader to consider an alternative view which favors a more complete and multidimensional interpretation. It is common to present the 1 period as characterized by the rise of the Modern Synthesis, an event structured around two main explanatory commitments: (1) Gradual evolution is explained by small genetic changes (variations) oriented by natural selection, a process leading to adaptation; (2) Evolutionary trends and speciational events are macroevolutionary phenomena that can be accounted for solely in terms of the extension of processes and mechanisms occurring at the previous microevolutionary level. On this view, natural selection holds a central explanatory role in evolutionary theory - one that presumably reaches back to Charles Darwin's Origin of Species - a view also accompanied by the belief that the field of evolutionary biology is organized around a profound divide: theories relying on strong selective factors and those appealing only to weak ones. If one reads the new analyses presented in this volume by biologists, historians and philosophers, this divide seems to be collapsing at a rapid pace, opening an era dedicated to the search for a n
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
- Year: 2021
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN: 9783030655358
- Condition: Fine
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