The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) debate is gaining ground in contemporary evolutionary biology. In parallel, a number of philosophical standpoints have emerged in an attempt to clarify what exactly is represented by the EES. For Massimo Pigliucci, we are in the wake of the newest instantiation of a persisting Kuhnian paradigm; in contrast, Telmo Pievani has contended that the transition to an EES could be best represented as a progressive reformation of a prior Lakatosian scientific research program, with the extension of its Neo-Darwinian core and the addition of a brand-new protective belt of assumptions and auxiliary hypotheses. Here, we argue that those philosophical vantage points are not the only ways to interpret what current proposals to ‘extend’ the Modern Synthesis-derived ‘standard evolutionary theory’ (SET) entail in terms of theoretical change in evolutionary biology. We specifically propose the image of the emergent EES as a vast network of models and interweaved representations that, instantiated in diverse practices, are connected and related in multiple ways. Under that assumption, the EES could be articulated around a paraconsistent network of evolutionary theories (including some elements of the SET), as well as models, practices and representation systems of contemporary evolutionary biology, with edges and nodes that change their position and centrality as a consequence of the co-construction and stabilization of facts and historical discussions revolving around the epistemic goals of this area of the life sciences. We then critically examine the purported structure of the EES—published by Laland and collaborators in 2015—in light of our own network-based proposal. Finally, we consider which epistemic units of Evo-Devo are present or still missing from the EES, in preparation for further analyses of the topic of explanatory integration in this conceptual framework.

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扩展进化综合的新兴结构：Evo-Devo适合何处使用？

扩展进化合成（EES）的争论在当代进化生物学中日益普及。同时，出现了许多哲学观点，试图阐明EES的确切含义。对于Massimo Pigliucci而言，我们正处于持久的库恩范例的最新实例之后。相反，Telmo Pievani辩称，向EES的过渡最好地表现为对先前拉卡托斯人的科学研究计划的逐步改革，其中包括其新达尔文主义核心的扩展以及全新的假设保护带。和辅助假设。这里，我们认为，这些哲学观点并不是解释当前关于“扩展”现代综合派生的“标准进化论”（SET）的提议的唯一方法，而这些提议就进化生物学的理论变化而言是必需的。我们特别提出将新兴EES的图像作为广泛的模型网络和交织的表示形式的网络，这些形式和交织的表示形式在不同的实践中以多种方式连接和关联。在此假设下，EES可以围绕进化理论（包括SET的某些元素）以及当代进化生物学的模型，实践和表示系统的超常一致的网络表达，由于共同构建和稳定了事实，历史讨论围绕生命科学这一领域的认识目标而改变了边缘和节点，从而改变了它们的位置和中心。然后，根据我们自己的基于网络的建议，我们将严格审查EES的所谓结构，该结构由Laland和合作者于2015年发布。最后，我们考虑在EES中存在或仍然缺少Evo-Devo的认知单元，以准备进一步分析此概念框架中的解释性集成主题。