The ‘Global Phylogeny’ and its Historical Legacy: A Critical Review of a Unified Theory of Human Biological and Linguistic Co-Evolution

Kressing, Frank; Krischel, Matthis; Fangerau, Heiner

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“…All have a birth, life history, and ending in time from which linguistic, cultural, and sociopolitical genealogies could be inferred. Because they were beings, they even reproduced, though not by replication, but by splitting (diffusion) or merging (cultural blending or acculturation, Gontier 2006c; Kressing et al 2014). Inspired by linguistics and language genealogies, Darwin argued that all biological organisms are also genealogically related through what we call genetics and what he called the blood line (discussed in Gontier 2011).…”

Section: "Evolutionizing the Dead" By Means Of Organicismmentioning

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Uniting Micro- with Macroevolution into an Extended Synthesis: Reintegrating Life’s Natural History into Evolution Studies

Gontier

2015

Interdisciplinary Evolution Research

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The Modern Synthesis explains the evolution of life at a mesolevel by identifying phenotype-environmental interactions as the locus of evolution and by identifying natural selection as the means by which evolution occurs. Both microand macroevolutionary schools of thought are post-synthetic attempts to evolutionize phenomena above and below organisms that have traditionally been conceived as non-living. Microevolutionary thought associates with the study of how genetic selection explains higher-order phenomena such as speciation and extinction, while macroevolutionary research fields understand species and higher taxa as biological individuals and they attribute evolutionary causation to biotic and abiotic factors that transcend genetic selection. The microreductionist and macroholistic research schools are characterized as two distinct epistemic cultures where the former favor mechanical explanations, while the latter favor historical explanations of the evolutionary process by identifying recurring patterns and trends in the evolution of life. I demonstrate that both cultures endorse radically different notions on time and explain how both perspectives can be unified by endorsing epistemic pluralism. Keywords Microevolution • Macroevolution • Origin of life • Evolutionary biology • Sociocultural evolution • Natural history • Organicism • Biorealities • Units, levels and mechanisms of evolution • Major transitions • Hierarchy theory But how … shall we describe a process which nobody has seen performed, and of which no written history gives any account? This is only to be investigated, first, in examining the nature of those solid bodies, the history of which we want to know; and 2dly, in examining the natural operations of the globe, in order to see if there now actually exist such operations, as, from the nature of the solid bodies, appear to have been necessary to their formation. (Hutton, cited in Teggart 1916: 249

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Section: "Evolutionizing the Dead" By Means Of Organicismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Uniting Micro- with Macroevolution into an Extended Synthesis: Reintegrating Life’s Natural History into Evolution Studies

Gontier

2015

Interdisciplinary Evolution Research

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Section: "Evolutionizing the Dead" By Means Of Organicismmentioning

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“…Historical linguists have from the nineteenth century onward and in close parallel with evolutionary biologists attempted to reconstruct the natural genealogies of languages (Gontier 2011;Kressing et al 2014). When Lorenz (1958) and Tinbergen (1963) first defined ethology, they wanted nothing less than to build a taxonomy of behavior and thus give the natural history or the genealogy of different behavioral traits by mapping when they first arose in time and how they evolved, spread, went extinct, or transitioned into something new.…”

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Macroevolution: explanation, interpretation and evidence

2015

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Development and Degeneration: Classification and Evolution of Human Populations and Languages in the History of Anthropology

Kressing

Krischel

2016

Interdisciplinary Evolution Research

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The ‘Global Phylogeny’ and its Historical Legacy: A Critical Review of a Unified Theory of Human Biological and Linguistic Co-Evolution

Cited by 5 publications

References 23 publications

Uniting Micro- with Macroevolution into an Extended Synthesis: Reintegrating Life’s Natural History into Evolution Studies

Uniting Micro- with Macroevolution into an Extended Synthesis: Reintegrating Life’s Natural History into Evolution Studies

Macroevolution: explanation, interpretation and evidence

Development and Degeneration: Classification and Evolution of Human Populations and Languages in the History of Anthropology

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