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| Title |
The next evolutionary synthesis: from Lamarck and Darwin to genomic variation and systems biology
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| Published in |
Cell Communication and Signaling, November 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1478-811x-9-30 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jonathan BL Bard |
| Abstract |
The evolutionary synthesis, the standard 20th century view of how evolutionary change occurs, is based on selection, heritable phenotypic variation and a very simple view of genes. It is therefore unable to incorporate two key aspects of modern molecular knowledge: first is the richness of genomic variation, so much more complicated than simple mutation, and second is the opaque relationship between the genotype and its resulting phenotype. Two new and important books shed some light on how we should view evolutionary change now. "Evolution: a view from the 21st century" by J.A. Shapiro (2011, FT Press Science, New Jersey, USA. pp. 246) examines the richness of genomic variation and its implications. "Transformations of Lamarckism: from Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology" edited by S.B. Gissis & E. Jablonka (2011, MIT Press, Cambridge, USA. pp. 457) includes some 40 papers that anyone with an interest in the history of evolutionary thought and the relationship between the environment and the genome will want to read. This review discusses both books within the context of contemporary evolutionary thinking and points out that neither really comes to terms with today's key systems-biology question: how does mutation-induced variation in a molecular network generate variation in the resulting phenotype? |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 67 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Chile | 1 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Mexico | 1 | 1% |
| Belgium | 1 | 1% |
| Denmark | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 61 | 91% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 19% |
| Researcher | 12 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 16% |
| Professor | 7 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 15 | 22% |
| Unknown | 4 | 6% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 30 | 45% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 13 | 19% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 4% |
| Psychology | 3 | 4% |
| Arts and Humanities | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 9 | 13% |
| Unknown | 7 | 10% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 December 2022.
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