The Darwinian tradition in context : research programs in evolutionary biology / Richard G. Delisle, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Delisle, Richard G., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evolution (Biology)--Research--History.

Evolution (Biology).

Evolution (Biology)--Philosophy--History.

Evolutionary developmental biology--History.

Evolutionary developmental biology.

Evolution (Biology)--History.

History.

Evolution (Biology)--Philosophy.

Evolution (Biology)--Research.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 352 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]

Contents:

Introduction: Darwinism or a kaleidoscope of research programs and ideas? / Richard G. Delisle

Part I. From a pluralistic Darwinism to an ever more inclusive Darwinism. Selfish genes and lucky breaks : Richard Dawkins' and Stephen Jay Gould's divergent Darwinian agendas / Timothy Shanahan ; The behavioral sciences and sociobiology : a Darwinian approach / John Alcock ; Darwinism in the twentieth century : productive encounters with saltation, acquired characteristics, and development / David J. Depew ; Darwinism after the modern synthesis / Massimo Pigliucci ; Human evolution as a theoretical model for an extended evolutionary synthesis / Adam Van Arsdale

Part II. Crossing the boundaries : between non-Darwinian and Darwinian. From Charles Darwin to the evolutionary synthesis : weak and diffused connections only / Richard G. Delisle ; Major research traditions in twentieth-century evolutionary biology : the relations of Germany's Darwinism with them / Georgy S. Levit and Uwe Hoßfeld ; Alternatives to Darwinism in the early twentieth century / Peter J. Bowler ; The organismal synthesis : holistic science and developmental evolution in the English-speaking world, 1915-1954 / Maurizio Esposito ; Lamarckian research programs in French biology (1900-1970) / Laurent Loison and Emily Herring ; Molecularizing evolutionary biology / Michel Morange ; Cells, development, and evolution : teeth studies at the intersection of fields / Kate MacCord and Jane Maienschein ; Symbiogenesis and cell evolution : an anti-Darwinian research agenda? / Ulrich Kutschera ; Paleobiology's uneasy relationship with the Darwinian tradition : stasis as data / Derek D. Turner.

Notes:

"This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

331969121X

9783319691213

OCLC:

1004074399