Preface .................................................... vii
I INTRODUCTION ................................................. 1
1 Elements of an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis ............... 3
Massimo Pigliucci and Gerd В. Müller
II VARIATION AND SELECTION .................................... 19
2 Reconsidering the Importance of Chance Variation ............ 21
John Beatty
3 High-Dimensional Fitness Landscapes and Speciation .......... 45
Sergey Gavrilets
4 Multilevel Selection and Major Transitions .................. 81
David Sloan Wilson
III EVOLVING GENOMES .......................................... 95
5 Integrating Genomics into Evolutionary Theory ............... 97
Gregory A. Wray
6 Complexities in Genome Structure and Evolution ............. 117
Michael Purugganan
IV INHERITANCE AND REPLICATION ............................... 135
7 Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance ................... 137
Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb
8 Niche Inheritance .......................................... 175
John Odling-Smee
9 Chemical, Neuronal, and Linguistic Replicators ............. 209
Chrisantha Fernando and Eörs Szathmáry
V EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY .......................... 251
10 Facilitated Variation ...................................... 253
Marc W. Kirschner and John C. Gerhart
11 Dynamical Patterning Modules ............................... 281
Stuart A. Newman
12 Epigenetic Innovation ...................................... 307
Gerd В. Müller
VI MACROEVOLUTION AND EVOLVABILITY ........................... 333
13 Origination Patterns and Multilevel Processes in
Macroevolution ............................................. 335
David Jablonski
14 Phenotypic Plasticity ...................................... 355
Massimo Pigliucci
15 Evolution of Evolvability .................................. 379
Günter P. Wagner and Jeremy Draghi
VII PHILOSOPHICAL DIMENSIONS .................................. 401
16 Rethinking the Structure of Evolutionary Theory for an
Extended Synthesis ......................................... 403
Alan C. Love
17 The Dialectics of Dis/Unity in the Evolutionary Synthesis
and Its Extensions ......................................... 443
Werner Callebaut
Contributors ............................................... 483
Index ...................................................... 485
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