Open AccessGenomic creativity and natural selection: a modern synthesis
Author(s) -
RYAN FRANK P.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
biological journal of the linnean society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.906
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1095-8312
pISSN - 0024-4066
DOI - 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00650.x
Subject(s) - biology , darwinism , natural selection , mendelian inheritance , evolutionary biology , creativity , epigenesis , selection (genetic algorithm) , gene duplication , genetics , gene , dna methylation , gene expression , artificial intelligence , computer science , political science , law
In the early 1930s, the synthesis of Darwinian natural selection, mutation, and Mendelian genetics gave rise to the paradigm of ‘modern Darwinism’, also known as ‘neo‐Darwinism’. This has contributed greatly to our understanding. But increasing knowledge of other mechanisms, including endosymbiosis, genetic and genomic duplication, polyploidy, hybridization, epigenetics, horizontal gene transfer in prokaryotes, and the modern synthesis of embryonic development and evolution, has widened our horizons to a diversity of possibilities for change. All of these can be gathered under the umbrella concept of ‘genomic creativity’, which, in partnership with natural selection, affords a more comprehensive modern explanation of evolution. © 2006 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society , 2006, 88 , 655–672.