The role of natural selection in the evolution of adaptive phenotypes has undergone
constant probing by evolutionary biologists, employing both theoretical and empirical …

Since the last major theoretical integration in evolutionary biology—the modern synthesis
(MS) of the 1940s—the biosciences have made significant advances. The rise of molecular …

Culture suffuses all aspects of human life. It shapes our minds and bodies and has provided
a cumulative inheritance of knowledge, skills, institutions, and artifacts that allows us to truly …

Evolutionary theory has been extended almost continually since the evolutionary synthesis
(ES), but except for the much greater importance afforded genetic drift, the principal tenets of …

The Modern Evolutionary Synthesis (MS) forged in the mid-twentieth century was built on a
notion of heredity that excluded soft inheritance, the inheritance of the effects of …

By the mid-twentieth century (thus following the 'Modern Synthesis' in evolutionary biology),
the behavioural sciences offered only the sketchy beginnings of a scientific literature …

The concept of epigenetics has evolved since Waddington defined it from the late 1930s as
the study of the causal mechanisms at work in development. It has become a multi-faceted …

There is a tension between the conception of cognition as a central nervous system (CNS)
process and a view of cognition as extending towards the body or the contiguous …

When humans and other animals make cultural innovations, they also change their
environment, thereby imposing new selective pressures that can modify their biological …

One of the challenges in evaluating arguments for extending the conceptual framework of
evolutionary biology involves the identification of a tractable model system that allows for an …