Challenging the Modern Synthesis Adaptation, Development, and Inheritance

Philippe Huneman is CNRS Research Professor and Professor of Philosophy at LInstitut dHistoire et de Philosophie des Science et des Technique, Université Paris I SorbonneWalsh: Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Biology in the Department of Philosophy, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology and the Department of Ecology and evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto.

Denis Walsh received a PhD in Biology at McGill University and a PhD in Philosophy at King's College London. He held the Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Biology at the University of Toronto until 2015.

Contributors iv
Introduction
Challenging the Modern Synthesis 1
Denis M. Walsh and Philippe Huneman

Part 1: Adaptation and Selection
Chapter 1: Natural Selection, Adaptation, and the Recovery of Development David Depew
Chapter 2: Why would we call for a new evolutionary synthesis? The variation issue and the explanatory alternatives Philippe Huneman
Chapter 3: Genetic Assimilation and the Paradox of Blind Variation Arnaud Pocheville and Ètienne Danchin
Chapter 4: Evolutionary Theory Evolving Patrick Bateson

Part 2: Development
Chapter 5: Evo-devo and the Structure(s) of Evolutionary Theory: A Different Kind of Challenge Alan C. Love
Chapter 6: Toward a Non-Idealist Evolutionary Synthesis Stuart A. Newman
Chapter 7: Evolvability and its Evolvability Alessandro Minelli
Chapter 8: Chance Caught on the Wing: Methodological Commitment or Methodological Artifact? Denis M. Walsh

Part 3: Inheritance
Chapter 9: Limited Extended Inheritance Francesca Merlin
Chapter 10: Heredity and Evolutionary Theory Tobias Uller and Heikki Helanterä
Chapter 11: Serial homology as a Challenge to Evolutionary Theory: The repeated parts of organisms from idealistic morphology to evo-devo Stéphane Schmitt