Serrelli E (2013). The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: new theory, new practices, new marketing, or new narratives?. Talk at The Evolution Conference [joint annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB), and the American Society of Naturalists (ASN)], Snowbird, Utah, USA, June 21-25th.

1. The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis:
new theory, new practices, new marketing, or new narratives?
Emanuele Serrelli
• “Riccardo Massa” Department of Human Sciences
University of Milano Bicocca, ITALY
• Lisbon Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab
Universidade de Lisboa
emanuele.serrelli@unimib.it
http://www.epistemologia.eu
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experimental genetics
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paleontology
George Gaylord Simpson
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skeptic.com
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Sewall Wright
sciencemag.org
Ronald Fisher
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MS: from a theory of form
to a theory of genes
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5. 4
Missing elements:
MS: from a theory of form
to a theory of genes
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6. 4
Missing elements:
(1) development
MS: from a theory of form
to a theory of genes
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Missing elements:
(1) development
(2) ecology
MS: from a theory of form
to a theory of genes
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8. 4
Missing elements:
(1) development
(2) ecology
(3) implications of the “-omics
revolution” (neutralism, genotype-phenotype)
MS: from a theory of form
to a theory of genes
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Missing elements:
(1) development
(2) ecology
(3) implications of the “-omics
revolution” (neutralism, genotype-phenotype)
(4) phenomena e.g. plasticity, evolutionary
capacitance, epigenetic inheritance
MS: from a theory of form
to a theory of genes
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10. 4
Missing elements:
(1) development
(2) ecology
(3) implications of the “-omics
revolution” (neutralism, genotype-phenotype)
(4) phenomena e.g. plasticity, evolutionary
capacitance, epigenetic inheritance
MS: from a theory of form
to a theory of genes
EES: back to a theory of form
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11. 4
Missing elements:
(1) development
(2) ecology
(3) implications of the “-omics
revolution” (neutralism, genotype-phenotype)
(4) phenomena e.g. plasticity, evolutionary
capacitance, epigenetic inheritance
MS: from a theory of form
to a theory of genes
EES: back to a theory of form
Pieces of the EES:
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12. 4
Missing elements:
(1) development
(2) ecology
(3) implications of the “-omics
revolution” (neutralism, genotype-phenotype)
(4) phenomena e.g. plasticity, evolutionary
capacitance, epigenetic inheritance
MS: from a theory of form
to a theory of genes
EES: back to a theory of form
Pieces of the EES:
(1) evolvability, (modularity,
robustness)
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13. 4
Missing elements:
(1) development
(2) ecology
(3) implications of the “-omics
revolution” (neutralism, genotype-phenotype)
(4) phenomena e.g. plasticity, evolutionary
capacitance, epigenetic inheritance
MS: from a theory of form
to a theory of genes
EES: back to a theory of form
Pieces of the EES:
(1) evolvability, (modularity,
robustness)
(2) phenotypic plasticity,
genetic accommodation
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14. 4
Missing elements:
(1) development
(2) ecology
(3) implications of the “-omics
revolution” (neutralism, genotype-phenotype)
(4) phenomena e.g. plasticity, evolutionary
capacitance, epigenetic inheritance
MS: from a theory of form
to a theory of genes
EES: back to a theory of form
Pieces of the EES:
(1) evolvability, (modularity,
robustness)
(2) phenotypic plasticity,
genetic accommodation
(3) epigenetic and multiple
inheritance
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15. 4
Missing elements:
(1) development
(2) ecology
(3) implications of the “-omics
revolution” (neutralism, genotype-phenotype)
(4) phenomena e.g. plasticity, evolutionary
capacitance, epigenetic inheritance
MS: from a theory of form
to a theory of genes
EES: back to a theory of form
Pieces of the EES:
(1) evolvability, (modularity,
robustness)
(2) phenotypic plasticity,
genetic accommodation
(3) epigenetic and multiple
inheritance
(4) complexity theory
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16. 4
Missing elements:
(1) development
(2) ecology
(3) implications of the “-omics
revolution” (neutralism, genotype-phenotype)
(4) phenomena e.g. plasticity, evolutionary
capacitance, epigenetic inheritance
MS: from a theory of form
to a theory of genes
EES: back to a theory of form
Pieces of the EES:
(1) evolvability, (modularity,
robustness)
(2) phenotypic plasticity,
genetic accommodation
(3) epigenetic and multiple
inheritance
(4) complexity theory
(5) updated adaptive
landscapes
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Evo-devo: "a causal mechanistic approach
towards the understanding of phenotypic
change in evolution"
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Evo-devo: "a causal mechanistic approach
towards the understanding of phenotypic
change in evolution"
Major theoretical themes:
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Evo-devo: "a causal mechanistic approach
towards the understanding of phenotypic
change in evolution"
Major theoretical themes:
Modularity
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21. 6
Evo-devo: "a causal mechanistic approach
towards the understanding of phenotypic
change in evolution"
Major theoretical themes:
Modularity
Phenotypic plasticity
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22. 6
Evo-devo: "a causal mechanistic approach
towards the understanding of phenotypic
change in evolution"
Major theoretical themes:
Modularity
Phenotypic plasticity
Evolutionary innovation
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23. 6
Evo-devo: "a causal mechanistic approach
towards the understanding of phenotypic
change in evolution"
Major theoretical themes:
Modularity
Phenotypic plasticity
Evolutionary innovation
Theoretical implications for extending the
MS:
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Evo-devo: "a causal mechanistic approach
towards the understanding of phenotypic
change in evolution"
Major theoretical themes:
Modularity
Phenotypic plasticity
Evolutionary innovation
Theoretical implications for extending the
MS:
Evolvability
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25. 6
Evo-devo: "a causal mechanistic approach
towards the understanding of phenotypic
change in evolution"
Major theoretical themes:
Modularity
Phenotypic plasticity
Evolutionary innovation
Theoretical implications for extending the
MS:
Evolvability
Emergence
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26. 6
Evo-devo: "a causal mechanistic approach
towards the understanding of phenotypic
change in evolution"
Major theoretical themes:
Modularity
Phenotypic plasticity
Evolutionary innovation
Theoretical implications for extending the
MS:
Evolvability
Emergence
Organization
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33. Mechanisms of horizontal evolution
Moremechanismsofverticalevolution
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Ecological evolutionary mechanisms
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Evolutionary Biology. The Year
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Massimo Pigliucci.
An Extended Synthesis for
Evolutionary Biology. The Year
in Evolutionary Biology 2009:
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218–228 (2009).
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Jerry Coyne
16 Feb 2009
http://
whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.c
om/2009/02/16/are-we-ready-
for-an-extended-evolutionary-
synthesis/
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40. pbs.org
pbs.org
huxley.net
experimental genetics
Theodosius Dobzhansky
paleontology
George Gaylord Simpson
evolutionary theory
Julian Huxley
ornithology, the naturalists
Ernst Mayr
skeptic.com
15
Sewall Wright
sciencemag.org
Ronald Fisher
J.B.S. Haldane
theoretical genetics
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