MODERN SYNTHESIS - EXTENDED EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS DEBATE: A PLURALIST SOLUTION

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2025-5

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Gülsaçan, Murat

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The latest challenge to mainstream evolutionary biology’s Modern Synthesis (MS) is Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES). While EES supporters advocate for extending evolutionary theory with new empirical findings and newly developed theories in areas such as developmental biology and epigenetics, MS supporters remain content with the old theory, claiming that new empirical findings align with MS, so there is no need for an extensive overhaul of evolutionary theory. They deny the actuality of plurality in evolution based on unity and reduction. On the other hand, the EES side points out the plurality in evolution and demands a new synthesis that will include the newly discovered phenomena. For the solution of the MS-EES Debate, I advocated for Integrative Pluralism. Integrative Evolutionary Pluralism (IEP), inspired by integrative pluralism, represents the third, more stable yet unrealized path for evolutionary biology.

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Evolutionary Theory, Modern Synthesis, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Scientific Pluralism, Evolutionary Pluralism

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/114536

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis