Evolution - the Extended Synthesis. Massimo Pigliucci, Gerd B. Müller

Evolution - the Extended Synthesis


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ISBN: 0262513676,9780262513678 | 504 pages | 13 Mb


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Evolution - the Extended Synthesis Massimo Pigliucci, Gerd B. Müller
Publisher: The MIT Press




He has a forthcoming book titled Evolution: The Extended Synthesis (co-edited with Gerd Muller, M.I.T. Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) now provide mature optimization tools that have successfully been applied to many problems, from designing antennas to complete robots, and provided many human-competitive results. Müller, "Evolution - the Extended Synthesis" The M IT Pr ess | 2010 | ISBN: 0262513676 | 504 pages | PDF | 33 MB. And now I must on to the most important part of modern evolutionary sciences, the modern synthesis, the modern synthesis was the synthesis of genetics and evolution, it is truly worth a post of its own, even a book of its own (wait… it does have multiple books of its own actually!). And a consensus is emerging that it's time for change, or an “extended synthesis". A major debate in evolutionary biology circles today is whether the mid-20th century modern synthesis needs to be radically updated. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2013) in. Many biologists are calling for an 'extended evolutionary synthesis' that would 'modernize the modern synthesis' of evolution. Ledyard Stebbins extended these theories to plants and emphasized polyploidy and hybridization as mechanisms of evolution. The relevant text I would recommend is Evolution: The Extended Synthesis edited by a certain Massimo Pigliucci and Gerd Muller. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 06-10, 2013.