Darwin's evolutionary view of the world has been of the greatest human achievements of the human race.
However, the evolution theory itself evolves over time, as it is expected from any other living entity.
The modern evolutionary synthesis was the first major update to the Darwins model.
The main idea behind update was integrating the latest achievements and understandings from biology in the original evolutionary framework.
But it was not the last update. These years, a new group of evolutionary biologists is pushing for further developments in the evolutionary theory. Mainly by considering some other evolutionary motives beyond natural selection.
These new updates are called extended evolutionary synthesis. Although discussions about extending …show more content…
We talk about survival of the fittest. But when you ask about the fitness, you will hear: the survived species are the species with the highest fitness.
By the way, this is not the only problem with the original model. Even in the absence of the competition and the limited resources, the environmental constraints can push a complex system to adapt itself to the environment through self-organization.
This self-organizing capability in complex systems, is called plasticity by biologists.
It means, from the complex systems point of view, for any complex entity, there's a combination of competition and adaptation that pushes the system through the evolution path.
So, whether we call it update or extension, we should hold in mind that the evolution of a system has two inherently different components.
However, critics of Darwinian theory should not be so happy. Even with these updates, Darwin still holds the highest position in the hierarchy of the all scientist that have tried to describe the emergence of life and complexity on the
However, the evolution theory itself evolves over time, as it is expected from any other living entity.
The modern evolutionary synthesis was the first major update to the Darwins model.
The main idea behind update was integrating the latest achievements and understandings from biology in the original evolutionary framework.
But it was not the last update. These years, a new group of evolutionary biologists is pushing for further developments in the evolutionary theory. Mainly by considering some other evolutionary motives beyond natural selection.
These new updates are called extended evolutionary synthesis. Although discussions about extending …show more content…
We talk about survival of the fittest. But when you ask about the fitness, you will hear: the survived species are the species with the highest fitness.
By the way, this is not the only problem with the original model. Even in the absence of the competition and the limited resources, the environmental constraints can push a complex system to adapt itself to the environment through self-organization.
This self-organizing capability in complex systems, is called plasticity by biologists.
It means, from the complex systems point of view, for any complex entity, there's a combination of competition and adaptation that pushes the system through the evolution path.
So, whether we call it update or extension, we should hold in mind that the evolution of a system has two inherently different components.
However, critics of Darwinian theory should not be so happy. Even with these updates, Darwin still holds the highest position in the hierarchy of the all scientist that have tried to describe the emergence of life and complexity on the