On 'Fisher Zero' coevolutionary singularities in the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
Rodrick Wallace, Deborah Wallace · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2022
We outline a 'mathematically elegant' formulation of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis that embeds genetic heritage within a more comprehensive structure including environment, development, niche construction, and large deviations, all under the influence of a stochastic burden that sculpts evolutionary response. The work is based on the asymptotic limit theorems of information theory, modulo abduction of appropriate methodology from statistical mechanics and nonequilibrium thermodynamics. The formalism could rejuvenate interplay between model-based evolutionary predictions and data-based observations, given that models must always remain the subordinate partner, and might further serve as a foundation for new statistical tools useful in the study of experimental and observational data.