Unfinished synthesis : biological hierarchies and modern evolutionary thought / Niles Eldredge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eldredge, Niles, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evolution (Biology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Written by an eminent evolutionary biologist (the co-founder of the theory of punctuated equilibria), this provocative study provides a stimulating critique of contemporary evolutionary thought, analysing the modern synthesis first developed by Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ernst Mayr and George Gaylord Simpson.

Contents:

Contents; Chapter 1 Approaching Complexity: Thinking About Evolution; Chapter 2 Genes and the Evolutionary Synthesis; Chapter 3 Systematics, Paleontology, and the Modern Synthesis; Chapter 4 The Structure and Content of the Modern Synthesis; Chapter 5 Toward Hierarchy: Trends and Tensions in Evolutionary Theory; Chapter 6 The Evolutionary Hierarchies; Chapter 7 Hierarchic Interactions: The Evolutionary Process; References; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1985.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-755997-2

1-280-76216-0

9786610762163

0-19-536513-5

OCLC:

609831350