Pigliucci, Massimo. “EVOLUTION AND ITS MAJOR TRANSITIONS.” (2011): 3642-3644.
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Theoretical evolutionary biology has been going through both a Renaissance and an expansion over the past several years, and some of the most intriguing contributions have come from the Vienna Series published by MIT Press. Although the classical view is that population genetics theory is the centerpiece of any theoretical biology (e.g., Lynch 2007), an expanded concept of what it means to do theory in biology has been proposed (Pigliucci 2008), of which population and quantitative genetics represent but a small (if very important) component. The volume recently edited by Brett Calcott and Kim Sterelny— interestingly, both philosophers of science—picks up where the now classic volume on evolutionary transitions by MaynardSmith and Szathmary (1997) left off and attempts to see where
we are when it comes to the really big picture in evolutionary theory.