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Beyond Lamarckism: Plasticity in Darwinian Evolution, 1890-1970: History and Philosophy of Biology

Autor Laurent Loison
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 aug 2024
Over the past 20 years, the role of phenotypic plasticity in Darwinian evolution has become a hotly debated topic among biologists and philosophers of science. For instance, in the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, a new form of evolutionary theory that aims to include processes not taken into account by standard theory (the Modern Synthesis), the question of the remarkable plasticity of living beings is central.
Beyond Lamarckism: Plasticity in Darwinian Evolution, 1890–1970 shows that the evolutionary impact of plasticity was in fact debated long before the emergence of the current debate on the limits of the Modern Synthesis. The question of how the plasticity of organisms could play a causal role in Darwinian evolution was raised on two separate occasions: first, around 1900, with the emergence of the theory of “organic selection” and, second, during the formation of the Modern Synthesis itself, in the mid-20th century. Out of these reflections came a very large number of concepts, models, and many different terms (“organic selection”, “stabilizing selection”, “genetic assimilation”, “Baldwin effect”, etc.), which were often developed independently in various research traditions and empirical contexts. This book also looks at the reasons why these conceptions have been downplayed in the standard understanding of adaptive evolution.
Showing the extraordinary complexity of this history, Beyond Lamarckism is aimed at readers interested in evolutionary theory, whether philosophers, biologists, or historians.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032719689
ISBN-10: 1032719680
Pagini: 314
Ilustrații: 54
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria History and Philosophy of Biology

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

General and Postgraduate

Cuprins

Introduction.
Part I. The rise of organic selection: thinking plasticity ecologically
1. Framing the issue from the viewpoint of natural selection. The confusing birth of organic selection in the pre-Mendelian era.
2. The eclipse of organic selection. The case-study of French-speaking post-Lamarckian biology.
3. The experimental turn, from plastic change to speciation.
Conclusion of Part I
Part II. Waddington and Schmalhausen: thinking plasticity developmentally
Introduction of Part II
4. ‘Autonomization’, ‘canalization’ and ‘genetic assimilation’. Towards a developmental perspective on the relationship between adaptability and adaptation. 
5. A problematic issue: the creativity of the developmental process.
6. An overlooked revolution? Creativity in the evolutionary building of a new reaction norm.
Conclusion of Part II
Part III. (dis?)Integration into the Modern Synthesis: thinking plasticiy genetically
Introduction of Part III
7. The Baldwin effect: “de-ecologizing” organic selection.
8. Re-working Waddingtonian concepts within quantitative genetics.
9. The complex fate of Waddingtonian concepts in the subsequent history of the Modern Synthesis.
Conclusion of Part III
General Conclusion.

Notă biografică

Laurent Loison is a CNRS researcher in history and philosophy of biology (Paris, France). A major part of his work focuses on the history of the various forms of Lamarckism in biology over the past two centuries.

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Beyond Lamarckism, Plasticity in Darwinian Evolution shows that the evolutionary impact of plasticity was in fact debated long before the emergence of the current debate on the limits of the Modern Synthesis.