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A Commentary on Blute’s ‘Updated Definition’

Denis Walsh

Spontaneous Generations 2 (1):6 (2008)

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Is it Time for an Updated ‘Eco-Evo-Devo’ Definition of Evolution by Natural Selection?Marion Blute - 2008 - Spontaneous Generations 2 (1):1.details Abstract A lot of science has passed under the bridge since the classic definition of evolution as a change in gene frequencies in a population became common. Much knowledge has accumulated since then about evolution, heredity, ecology, development, phenotypic plasticity, niche construction and genetic drift. Building on Van Valen’s description of evolution as “the control of development by ecology,” it is suggested that the classic definition be replaced by a updated ‘eco‐evo-evo’ definition of evolution by natural selection which acknowledges this (...) accumulation. (shrink) Download Export citation Bookmark 5 citations
The hardening of the modern synthesis.Stephen J. Gould - unknowndetails In 1937, just as Dobzhansky published the book that later generations would laud as the foundation of the modern synthesis, the American Naturnlist published a symposium on "supraspecific variation in nature and in classification." Alfred C. Kinsey, who later became one of America's most controversial intellectuals for his study of basic behaviors in another sort of WASP,1 led off the symposium with a summary of his extensive work on a family of gall wasps, the Cynipidae. In his article, Kinsey strongly (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 59 citations
The inheritance of features.Matteo Mameli - 2005 - Biology and Philosophy 20 (2-3):365-399.details Since the discovery of the double helical structure of DNA, the standard account of the inheritance of features has been in terms of DNA-copying and DNA-transmission. This theory is just a version of the old theory according to which the inheritance of features is explained by the transfer at conception of some developmentally privileged material from parents to offspring. This paper does the following things: (1) it explains what the inheritance of features is; (2) it explains how the DNA-centric theory (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 26 citations

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