Essays on the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis

From the ‘punctuated equilibrium'' of Eldrege and Gould, through Lewontin''s ‘triple helix'' and the various visions and revisions of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) of Laland and others, both data and theory have demanded an opening-up of the 1950''s Evolutionary Synthesis that so firmly wedded evolutionary theory to the mathematics of gene frequency analysis. It can, however, be argued...