Framework

... inheritance, as well as other challengesto the Modern Synthesis, it is concluded that that synthesis no longer offers a satisfactory theoretical framework forevolutionary biology. There is also a more in depth debate about on all this on another forum: http://scienceforums.com/topic/26322-had-evolution-moved-beyond-neo-darwinism/

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... Julian Huxley. It put a primary role for natural selection, mixed with mutation and later genetic drift. It also worked in a dogmatic gradualistic framework and denied that saltationism could occur. lamarkianism was discarded by the modern synthesis. Yes that's true. There's a lot of talk of neo-lamarkianism ...

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... are not responsible for adaptation. if that is the case, I don't see why the modern synthesis is in need of an update. It still seams a reasonable framework for biology including evo-devo etc. Thoughts?

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... are all non-Darwinian and can not be fitted into the modern evolutionary synthesis as the modern synthesis is still working in a Darwinian framework. Shapiro believes many of these mechanisms fit better with a saltationist school rather than Darwin's strict advocacy of gradualism via "numerous, ...

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... are all non-Darwinian and can not be fitted into the modern evolutionary synthesis as the modern synthesis is still working in a Darwinian framework. Shapiro believes many of these mechanisms fit better with a saltationist school rather than Darwin's strict advocacy of gradualism via "numerous, ...

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