The evolutionary synthesis : perspectives on the unification of biology / edited by Ernst Mayr and William B. Provine ; with a new preface by Ernst Mayr. [print]

Includes bibliographies and index.

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

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