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The extended evolutionary synthesis and the role of soft inheritance in evolution.
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- From natural theology to the extended synthesis: Historical milestones and conceptual expansions in evolutionary biology.Genetics and molecular biology · 2026Article
- Evolving a Field: Can Evolutionary Theory Provide What the Study of Human Evolution Requires?American journal of biological anthropology · 2025Review
- A generalised approach to the study and understanding of adaptive evolution.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2023Article
- Epigenetic inheritance and evolution: a historian's perspective.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- What's Wrong with Evolutionary Causation?Acta biotheoretica · 2021Review
- Early in life effects and heredity: reconciling neo-Darwinism with neo-Lamarckism under the banner of the inclusive evolutionary synthesis.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Article
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- On Reciprocal Causation in the Evolutionary Process.Evolutionary biology · 2018Review
- Persistent and plastic effects of temperature on DNA methylation across the genome of threespine stickleback (Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Genetic, epigenetic and exogenetic information in development and evolution.Interface focus · 2017Article
- Domestication as a model system for the extended evolutionary synthesis.Interface focus · 2017Review
- Evolutionary biology today and the call for an extended synthesis.Interface focus · 2017Article
- Why an extended evolutionary synthesis is necessary.Interface focus · 2017Review
- The sources of adaptive variation.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Review
- Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Environmental Toxicants: Epigenetics as an Underlying Mechanism.International journal of genomics · 2017Review
- Epigenetic alterations induced by environmental stress associated with metabolic and neurodevelopmental disorders.Environmental epigenetics · 2016Review
- Epigenetic Inheritance and Its Role in Evolutionary Biology: Re-Evaluation and New Perspectives.Biology · 2016Article
- Epigenetic Effect of Environmental Factors on Autism Spectrum Disorders.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2016Review
- The extended evolutionary synthesis: its structure, assumptions and predictions.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2015Review
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Abstract
In recent years, a number of researchers have advocated extending the modern synthesis in evolutionary biology. One of the core arguments made in favour of an extension comes from work on soft inheritance systems, including transgenerational epigenetic effects, cultural transmission and niche construction. In this study, we outline this claim and then take issue with it. We argue that the focus on soft inheritance has led to a conflation of proximate and ultimate causation, which has in turn obscured key questions about biological organization and calibration across the life span to maximize average lifetime inclusive fitness. We illustrate this by presenting hypotheses that we believe incorporate the core phenomena of soft inheritance and will aid in understanding them.
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