Evolution - the Extended Synthesis by Massimo Pigliucci, Gerd B. Müller

Evolution - the Extended Synthesis Massimo Pigliucci, Gerd B. Müller ebook
Format: pdf
Page: 504
Publisher: The MIT Press
ISBN: 0262513676, 9780262513678

The modern evolutionary synthesis is also incomplete, because it fails to extend the issues of natural selection in an organism's development to their co-evolutionary partners; the microbes. And a consensus is emerging that it's time for change, or an “extended synthesis". A major debate in evolutionary biology circles today is whether the mid-20th century modern synthesis needs to be radically updated. Understanding the adaptive changes that alter the function of proteins during evolution is an important question for biology and medicine. Some suggest it must be modified, like Gould when he suggests we tack on punctuated equilibrium, or at least extended. Müller, "Evolution - the Extended Synthesis" The M IT Pr ess | 2010 | ISBN: 0262513676 | 504 pages | PDF | 33 MB. The essay was kind of spoiled for me, though, by the ending, in which Zimmer seems to buy into something he calls the “extended evolutionary synthesis”. The increasing Pigliucci M: Do we need an extended evolutionary synthesis?. I managed to snag a copy of Evolution—The Extended Synthesis[1] from the University science library. Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) now provide mature optimization tools that have successfully been applied to many problems, from designing antennas to complete robots, and provided many human-competitive results.