Massimo Pigliucci
(1964-)
Massimo Pigliucci is an American philosopher and biologist who is professor of philosophy at the City College of New York. He is a critic of pseudoscience[5][6] (including creationism), and an advocate for secularism and science education.
Together with
Gerd Müller, Eva Jablonka, Kevin Laland, Alex Mesoudi, Stuart Newman, Kim Sterelny, John Odling-Smee, Tobias Uller, as well as
Denis Noble and others, Pigliucci formulated the
Extended Evolutionary Synthesis.
Pigliucci is an advocate for the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis becoming an alternative evolutionary framework to the
Modern Synthesis. the population dynamical model of evolution established in the early twentieth century that had concentrated on the processes of variation and adaptation based on random mutations of the DNA (genetic code). .
In contrast to the Modern Synthesis, the focus of the EES is on the generative properties of evolution, integrating conceptual developments from evolutionary developmental biology, genomics, ecology, and other fields. It differs from the standard theory in its inclusion of the constructive processes in development, the consideration of reciprocal dynamics of causation, and the relinquishment of a predominantly genetic explanation.
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