Special Episode: Evolution and Genetics
The Science of Everything Podcast
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The Relationship Between the Modern Synthesis and the Extended Synthesis
In reading about this, I've encountered different maybe tones or ways of expressing the relationship between the modern synthesis and the extended synthesis. One variant is sort of saying, look, the extended synthesis is building on and adding to our understanding by enhancing and adding on additional components to the modern synthesis. An alternative way of presenting it is a bit more confrontational, which issort of saying, actually, the modern synthesis is in some deep sense, like wrong or deeply flawed. It's kind of like a Rorschach test for biologists.
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