The extended evolutionary synthesis: Its structure, assumptions and predictions

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1813, 2015, Pages

  Laland, Kevin N ^a   Uller, Tobias ^b,d   Feldman, Marcus W ^e   Sterelny, Kim ^f,g   Müller, Gerd B ^h   Moczek, Armin ⁱ   Jablonka, Eva ^j   Odling Smee, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^h UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

ⁱ INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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Author keywords

Developmental plasticity; Evolutionary developmental biology; Extended evolutionary synthesis; Inclusive inheritance; Niche construction; Reciprocal causation

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GENOMICS; HERITABILITY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDICTION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ARCHAEON; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ECOLOGY; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENOMICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ECOLOGY; EUKARYOTA; GENOMICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84938898766     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.1019     Document Type: Review

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