Is the proposed Integrative Synthesis really new? The article proposes a new synthesis which differs in four major respects from

How widespread is trans-generational inheritance of acquired phenotype characteristics? Since this issue is central and requires careful attention to the

Summary of IUPS 2013 Lecture This account was posted by a graduate student at the Congress on the same day

The language of neo-darwinism This page answers the profound, and fundamental, question whether the language of neo-darwinism has been responsible

What are the implications for the speed of evolutionary change? What are the implications for the speed of evolutionary change? Some

What happened to junk DNA? Isn’t a lot of DNA “selfish”, “parasitic”? One of the standard defences of the selfish

The Origin of Species? Despite the title of Darwin’s famous book, we cannot be sure to what extent natural selection acting

Central Dogma The central dogma of molecular biology seemed to confirm the Weismann barrier idea. But it doesn’t. The dogma

The 2013 article is careful to define what is meant by random in the modern synthesis: “I will use the definition