Part 1: Macroevolutionary Explanations and Interpretations.- Can Modern Evolutionary Theory Explain Macroevolution?.- Evolution as a Largely Autonomous Process.- Visualizing Macroevolution: From Adaptive Landscapes to Compositions of Multiple Spaces.- Toward a Natural Philosophy of Macroevolution.- Networks and Hierarchies: Approaching Complexity in Evolutionary Theory.- Uniting Micro - with Macroevolution into an Extended Synthesis: Reintegrating Life's Natural History into Evolution Studies.- Part 2: Evidencing Macroevolution with Case Studies.- Using Microevolution to Explain the Macroevolutionary Observations for the Evolution of Sex.- Speciation: Expanding the Role of Biogeography and Niche Breadth in Macroevolutionary Theory.- Morphological Misfits and the Architecture of Development.- Macroevolution In and Around the Hominin Clade.- Facing the Big Sixth: From Prioritizing Species to Conserving Biodiversity.
Nathalie Gontier is a philosopher of science and an
anthropologist. Her main research interests lie in evolutionary
epistemology and non-Darwinian evolutionary theories, how the
latter differ from the Modern Synthesis and how they can be
implemented into the linguistic sciences and the overall
sociocultural domain. As the founding director of the Lisbon
Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab, she is affiliated to the
Centre for Philosophy of Science at the Faculty of Science of the
University of Lisbon, and financed by the Portuguese Fund for
Science and Technology. Previous appointments were held at the
Dutch Free University of Brussels (Belgium), the Konrad Lorenz
Institute (Austria), and the American Museum of Natural History
(USA). Her research has been sponsored by the American John
Templeton Foundation, the European Marie Curie Actions and the
Belgian Fund for Scientific Research Flanders. She is the founder
and editor-in-chief of the Springer book series Interdisciplinary
Evolution Research.
Emanuele Serrelli is a philosopher of science interested in
interdisciplinarity within and across the natural and social
sciences. He works with several Italian universities. He was
visiting scholar at the University of Utah, and visiting fellow at
the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science, the Lisbon
Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab, and the NESCent - National
Center for Evolutionary Synthesis, Durham, NC. As a member of the
scientific board of CISEPS - Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
in Economics, Psychology and Social Sciences, he leads the
"Cultural Evolution" research programme at University of Milano
Bicocca. As a philosopher of biology, he is trained in evolutionary
theory, a field in which he also studies interdisciplinarity and
modeling.
"The second in the series 'Interdisciplinary Evolution Research,' Macroevolution is a carefully selected, edited volume of 11 chapters plus an introduction on evolution above the species level, which is the body of evolutionary theory covered by the term macroevolution. ... Summing Up: Recommended. All readers." (B. K. Hall, Choice, Vol. 53 (2), October, 2015)
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