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Special Episode: Evolution and Genetics

The Science of Everything Podcast

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The Role of Genes in Evolution

There's a kind of interesting conflict and divide in the biological community right now that centers around the, out of view, the roles of genes appropriately in evolution. This is related to a concept sometimes called the extended evolutionary synthesis. And essentially people have argued that are proponents of this extended evolutionary synthesis no longer capture all of the interesting things that we know are happening That affect evolutionary trajectories of populations.

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