The evolutionary synthesis : perspectives on the unification of biology /
The evolutionary synthesis : perspectives on the unification of biology / [print]
edited by Ernst Mayr and William B. Provine ; with a new preface by Ernst Mayr.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)1998.
- xvii, 487 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Prologue : some thoughts on the history of the evolutionary synthesis Part One. Different biological disciplines and the synthesis -- 1. Genetics -- Introduction Theoretical population genetics in the evolutionary synthesis 2. Cytology -- Introduction The evolution of genetic systems : contributions of cytology to evolutionary theory Cytology in the T. H. Morgan school Cytogenetics and the neo-Darwinian synthesis 3. Embryology -- Introduction Embryology and the modern synthesis in evolutionary theory The modern evolutionary synthesis and the biogenetic law 4. Systematics -- The role of systematics in the evolutionary process 5. Botany -- Introduction Botany and the synthetic theory of evolution 6. Paleontology -- Introduction G. G. Simpson, paleontology, and the modern synthesis 7. Morphology -- Introduction Morphology in the evolutionary synthesis The failure of morphology to assimilate Darwinism Severtsov and Schmalhausen : Russian morphology and the evolutionary synthesis Part Two. The synthesis in different countries -- 8. Soviet Union -- The birth of the genetic theory of evolution in the Soviet Union in the 1920s Sergei Chetverikov, the Kol'tsov Institute, and the evolutionary synthesis 9. Germany -- Introduction Historical development of the present synthetic neo-Darwinism in Germany Evolutionary theory in Germany : a comment 10. France -- Introduction Evolutionary biology in France at the time of the evolutionary synthesis The arrival of neo-Darwinism in France A second glance at evolutionary biology in France 11. England -- Introduction Some recollections pertaining to the evolutionary synthesis Lamarckism in Britain and the United States 12. United States -- Introduction The evolutionary synthesis : Morgan and natural selection revisited Hypotheses that blur and grow Part Three. Final considerations -- 13. Interpretive issues in the evolutionary synthesis -- Introduction The meaning of the evolutionary synthesis 14. Epilogue Biographical essays -- How I became a Darwinian Curt Stern J. B. S. Haldane, R. A. Fisher, and William Bateson Morgan and the theory of natural selection Morgan and his school in the 1930s C. G. Simpson Ernst Mayr -- William B. Provine -- Richard C. Lewontin -- William B. Provine -- C. D. Darlington -- Alexander Weinstein -- Hampton L. Carson -- William B. Provine -- Viktor Hamburger -- Frederick B. Churchill -- Ernst Mayr -- Ernst Mayr -- G. Ledyard Stebbins -- Ernst Mayr -- Stephen Jay Gould -- Ernst Mayr -- William Coleman -- Michael T. Ghiselin -- Mark B. Adams -- Theodosius Dobzhansky -- Mark B. Adams -- Ernst Mayr -- Bernhard Rensch -- Viktor Hamburger -- Ernst Mayr -- Ernest Boesiger -- Ernst Mayr -- Camille Limoges -- William B. Provine -- E. B. Ford -- Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr. -- A note on W. L. Tower's Leptinotarsa work Alexander Weinstein -- William B. Provine -- Garland E. Allen -- Hampton L. Carson -- William B. Provine -- Dudley Shapere -- William B. Provine -- Ernst Mayr -- Ernst Mayr -- C. D. Darlington -- Alexander Weinstein -- Theodosius Dobzhansky -- Ernst Mayr.
9780674272255 9780674272262
98157613
Evolution (Biology)--History.
QH366.P969.E965 1998
Includes bibliographies and index.
Prologue : some thoughts on the history of the evolutionary synthesis Part One. Different biological disciplines and the synthesis -- 1. Genetics -- Introduction Theoretical population genetics in the evolutionary synthesis 2. Cytology -- Introduction The evolution of genetic systems : contributions of cytology to evolutionary theory Cytology in the T. H. Morgan school Cytogenetics and the neo-Darwinian synthesis 3. Embryology -- Introduction Embryology and the modern synthesis in evolutionary theory The modern evolutionary synthesis and the biogenetic law 4. Systematics -- The role of systematics in the evolutionary process 5. Botany -- Introduction Botany and the synthetic theory of evolution 6. Paleontology -- Introduction G. G. Simpson, paleontology, and the modern synthesis 7. Morphology -- Introduction Morphology in the evolutionary synthesis The failure of morphology to assimilate Darwinism Severtsov and Schmalhausen : Russian morphology and the evolutionary synthesis Part Two. The synthesis in different countries -- 8. Soviet Union -- The birth of the genetic theory of evolution in the Soviet Union in the 1920s Sergei Chetverikov, the Kol'tsov Institute, and the evolutionary synthesis 9. Germany -- Introduction Historical development of the present synthetic neo-Darwinism in Germany Evolutionary theory in Germany : a comment 10. France -- Introduction Evolutionary biology in France at the time of the evolutionary synthesis The arrival of neo-Darwinism in France A second glance at evolutionary biology in France 11. England -- Introduction Some recollections pertaining to the evolutionary synthesis Lamarckism in Britain and the United States 12. United States -- Introduction The evolutionary synthesis : Morgan and natural selection revisited Hypotheses that blur and grow Part Three. Final considerations -- 13. Interpretive issues in the evolutionary synthesis -- Introduction The meaning of the evolutionary synthesis 14. Epilogue Biographical essays -- How I became a Darwinian Curt Stern J. B. S. Haldane, R. A. Fisher, and William Bateson Morgan and the theory of natural selection Morgan and his school in the 1930s C. G. Simpson Ernst Mayr -- William B. Provine -- Richard C. Lewontin -- William B. Provine -- C. D. Darlington -- Alexander Weinstein -- Hampton L. Carson -- William B. Provine -- Viktor Hamburger -- Frederick B. Churchill -- Ernst Mayr -- Ernst Mayr -- G. Ledyard Stebbins -- Ernst Mayr -- Stephen Jay Gould -- Ernst Mayr -- William Coleman -- Michael T. Ghiselin -- Mark B. Adams -- Theodosius Dobzhansky -- Mark B. Adams -- Ernst Mayr -- Bernhard Rensch -- Viktor Hamburger -- Ernst Mayr -- Ernest Boesiger -- Ernst Mayr -- Camille Limoges -- William B. Provine -- E. B. Ford -- Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr. -- A note on W. L. Tower's Leptinotarsa work Alexander Weinstein -- William B. Provine -- Garland E. Allen -- Hampton L. Carson -- William B. Provine -- Dudley Shapere -- William B. Provine -- Ernst Mayr -- Ernst Mayr -- C. D. Darlington -- Alexander Weinstein -- Theodosius Dobzhansky -- Ernst Mayr.
9780674272255 9780674272262
98157613
Evolution (Biology)--History.
QH366.P969.E965 1998