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SPRINGERBRIEFS IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY ESSAYS...

From the 'punctuated equilibrium' of Eldrege and Gould  through Lewontin's 'triple helix' and
the various visions and revisions of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) of Laland and
others  both data and theory have demanded an opening-up of the 1950's Evolutionary Synthesis
that so firmly wedded evolutionary theory to the mathematics of gene frequency analysis. It can
however  be argued that a single deep and comprehensive mathematical theory may simply not be
possible for the almost infinite varieties of evolutionary process active at and across the
full range of scales of biological  social  institutional  and cultural phenomena. Indeed  the
case history of 'meme theory' should have raised a red flag that narrow gene-centered models of
evolutionary process may indeed have serious limitations. What is attempted here is less grand
but still broader than a gene-centered analysis. Following the instruction of Maturana and
Varela that all living systems are cognitive  in a certainsense  and that living as a process
is a process of cognition  the asymptotic limit theorems of information and control theories
that bound all cognition provide a basis for constructing an only modestly deep but
wider-ranging series of probability models that might be converted into useful statistical
tools for the analysis of observational and experimental data related to evolutionary process.
The line of argument in this series of interrelated essays proves to be surprisingly direct.

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