ABSTRACT
This chapter engages metamorphic organicism in the contemporary debate between the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis (MES) and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES). I begin to show how an evolutionary metamorphic organicism offers a more radical theoretical alternative to the MES than the EES does, and how metamorphic organicism’s insistence on relating all studies of life to organisms’ metamorphic and agential activity not only accommodates the best features of the MES, but also lays the groundwork for a more capacious philosophy of biology.
