Have Systematists Defined the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis?

What is your favorite list of precisely stated ideas that is, or is logically equivalent to, the "modern evolutionary synthesis"?

 

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I love these precisely stated ideas that very succinctly sum up evolutionary developmental biology.......

 

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Nice ideas. Very satisfying. But I'd redefine functional biology to its sphere of environmental exposure, or more properly to the typical environmental range. Too many people consider quantitative genetics as a static, omnipresent process. And maybe the last formula should be:

Evolutionary biology = δ/[developmental biology]/δi, where i is the number of generations. Or the inverse of the interval.

 

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there is no quantitative genetics in that equation.

that's probably good.

 

You be quiet.

 

isn't evolution the foundation for all biology? do we need a synthesis then? It's like saying you need a plan to explain the role of the concrete in a parking garage. concrete is the parking garage.

 

But it keeps doing things that we don't like, which gets us money. Eventually.

 

and one day you will find a cure for cancer.

 

Death? They already know about that one. I need something I can exploit people with for money.

 

what about some drug that makes boobs bigger and firmer.

 

As long as the morbidity rate is lower than silicone (or at least concealable until the FDA looks the other way), that would be a winner.

 

And there are no side effects till the age of 40 when trophy wives don't need their frontal assets any more since they will have been traded in for a newer model.

 

Well, we won't mention that in the NIH submission.