TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mayr,Ernst
AU  - Provine,William B.
TI  - The evolutionary synthesis: perspectives on the unification of biology 
SN  - 9780674272255
AV  - QH366.P969.E965 1998 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Evolution (Biology)
KW  - History
N1  - 2; 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; 2
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