Evolution, the Extended Synthesis

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Contents Preface vii I INTRODUCTION 1 1 Elements of an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis 3 Massimo Pigliucci and Gerd B. Müller II VARIATION AND SELECTION 19 2 Reconsidering the Importance of Chance Variation 21 John Beatty 3 High-Dimensional Fitness Landscapes and Speciation 45 Sergey Gavrilets 4 Multilevel Selection and Major Transitions 81 David Sloan Wilson III EVOLVING GENOMES 95 5 Integrating Genomics into Evolutionary Theory 97 Gregory A. Wray 6 Complexities in Genome Structure and Evolution 117 Michael Purugganan IV INHERITANCE AND REPLICATION 135 7 Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance 137 Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb 8 Niche Inheritance 175 John Odling-Smee 9 Chemical, Neuronal, and Linguistic Replicators 209 Chrisantha Fernando and Eörs Szathmáry V EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY 251 10 Facilitated Variation 253 Marc W. Kirschner and John C. Gerhart 11 Dynamical Patterning Modules 281 Stuart A. Newman 12 Epigenetic Innovation 307 Gerd B. Müller VI MACROEVOLUTION AND EVOLVABILITY 333 13 Origination Patterns and Multilevel Processes in Macroevolution 335 David Jablonski 14 Phenotypic Plasticity 355 Massimo Pigliucci 15 Evolution of Evolvability 379 Günter P. Wagner and Jeremy Draghi VII PHILOSOPHICAL DIMENSIONS 401 16 Rethinking the Structure of Evolutionary Theory for an Extended Synthesis 403 Alan C. Love 17 The Dialectics of Dis/Unity in the Evolutionary Synthesis and Its Extensions 443 Werner Callebaut Contributors 483 Index 485 vi Contents ...