“…is reconsideration of the potential role that organisms might play in improving our understanding of evolutionary processes has been driven by conceptual and empirical contributions from a diversity of disciplines and areas of study: evolutionary developmental biology (Evo-Devo; Arthur, 2004, chapter 7;Casanueva, 2014;Petino Zappala and Barberis, 2018;Müller, 2021;Nuño de la Rosa and Villegas, 2022), niche construction theory (Odling-Smee et al, 2003;Barahona et al, 2021;Aaby and Desmond, 2021), epigenetics (Baedke, 2018;Veigl, 2022), phenotypic plasticity research (West-Eberhard, 2003), microbiome and holobiont research (Skillings, 2016;Baedke et al, 2020a;Triviño and Suárez, 2020;Suárez and Stencel, 2020), immunology (Pradeu, 2010;Zach and Greslehner, 2023), the study of extra-genetic inheritance (Jablonka and Lamb, 2018;Bonduriansky and Day, 2020;Martín-Villuendas, 2021b), the contextual and social examination of organismal behavior (Gomez-Marin and Ghazanfar, 2019;Kohn, 2019), the debate surrounding the so-called 'Extended Evolutionary Synthesis' (Laland et al , 2015;Baedke et al, 2020b), cancer research in systemic contexts (Soto and Sonnenschein, 2021), and developmental systems theory (Oyama, 2000;Andrade, 2017), among other converging strands of theorization.…”