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Situated Darwinism: Organism-centered evolution (Ep 62)
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Situated Darwinism: Organism-centered evolution (Ep 62)

Are genes the prime movers in evolution, or is causality distributed across multiple levels of organization? What role do organisms play in evolution?

Could organismal agency, the propensity to respond actively to selective forces, affect standard evolutionary theory?

On this episode, we talk with Denis Walsh, a professor and philosopher of biology at the University of Toronto, about his book Organisms, Agency, and Evolution. The Modern Synthesis, which combines Darwin’s theory of natural selection and…

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