The new biology: beyond the Modern Synthesis

Background  

The last third of the 20^th Century featured an accumulation of research findings that severely challenged the assumptions of the "Modern Synthesis" which provided the foundations for most biological research during that century. The foundations of that "Modernist" biology had thus largely crumbled by the start of the 21^st Century. This in turn raises the question of foundations for biology in the 21^st Century.