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Milestones in the evolving theory of evolution / David Wool ; language editor, Naomi Paz ; illustrations by Dr. Leonid Friedman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wool, David (Professor of zoology), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Evolution (Biology)--History.
- Evolution (Biology).
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 323 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2021]
- Summary:
- "The book illustrates how Darwin's theory has evolved, about the development of the biological world before Darwin, and great changes that took place with the incorporation of statistics, and after Darwin's death of genetics and mathematics. The formation of 'Modern Synthesis', protein electrophoresis, Discovery of DNA opened new avenues for the study of evolution"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Origin of Life
- Spontaneous Generation
- Experiments in the 20th Century
- Extra-terrestrial Origin of Life?
- The First Circle
- ch. 2 Early Theories: Creation, Pre-formation and Order in the Biological World
- William Paley
- Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linne') and the Systema Naturae
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Count de Buffon
- Charles Bonnet: Pre-formation and the Chain of Beings
- ch. 3 More Theories
- Historical Background
- Erasmus Darwin
- James Hutton and "The Theory of the Earth"
- The Second Circle
- ch. 4 Georges Cuvier and the Theory of Catastrophes
- Comparative Anatomy
- History of the Globe: Geological and Climate Changes
- Fossils
- The Catastrophes
- Classification
- ch. 5 Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire: The Theory of Comparative Anatomy
- The Philosophy of Comparative Anatomy
- The Unified Body Plan
- The Conflict with Cuvier
- Other Scientific Contributions
- ch. 6 Jean Baptiste de Lamarck: The Theory of Descent
- His Life
- Contribution to Biology
- Zoological Philosophy: Lamarck's Evolutionary Ideas
- The Mechanism of Species Change ("Transmutation")
- Lines of Descent: The Earliest Phylogeny
- Cuvier's Eulogy for Lamarck
- Later Appreciation (1876)
- ch. 7 Charles Lyell - "The Father of Geology"
- Biographical Notes
- Geology, Fossils, and Time: "The Principles of Geology"
- Changes of the Surface of the Earth
- Lyell and Lamarck: Creation versus Transmutation
- Lyell and Darwin
- Fixity of Species versus Transmutation
- Faunal Changes in Successive Geological Strata
- Creation, Time, and Ecology
- The Effect of Man on the Environment and Species Diversity
- The Third Circle Charles Darwin, his Theory, his Supporters and Adversaries
- ch. 8 Charles Darwin: The Formative Years
- The Voyage of the "Beagle"
- The Galapagos Islands
- After the Voyage
- Evolution of the Theory of Natural Selection
- A.R. Wallace and the Ternate Paper, 1858
- Darwin's Reaction
- ch. 9 Evolution of the Theory of Natural Selection
- On Variation and Domestication
- "Special Creation" or Common Descent?
- The Final Form
- Speciation
- "Descent with Modification"
- Support from Embryology
- On the Evolution of Instincts
- ch. 10 On the Same Track: Ideas about the History of Life before 1859
- Forerunners of Darwin?
- Robert Chambers and "The Vestiges of Creation"
- The History of the World
- The Law of Development
- Reaction to the Book
- ch. 11 Alfred Russel Wallace
- The Malay Archipelago
- Spiritualism
- Wallace and the Theory of Evolution
- The Ternate Paper
- Wallace as a Darwinist: Further Contributions
- The Geographical Distribution of Animals
- Epilogue: The Modern Explanation
- Wallace's Line
- Wallace on The Evolution of Man
- ch. 12 Thomas Henry Huxley
- Huxley's Early Years as a Scientist
- Contributions to Biology
- Huxley and the Theory of Evolution: "Darwin's Bulldog"
- Huxley and Religion: "Science and the Hebrew Tradition"
- The Biblical [Noah's] Deluge
- Contributions to the British Educational System
- Teaching Natural Science in the Universities
- "Man's Place in Nature" (1864; 1900)
- Humans and Apes - Cranial Capacity and Mental Ability
- Evolution and Ethics
- The "Strangulation Age"
- ch. 13 Louis Agassiz: Classification and the Plan of Nature
- Zoology According to Agassiz
- Geographical Distribution
- The Geological Past
- Essay on Classification (1857)
- Geographic Distribution and Centers of Creation
- What are Species?
- On Man and Human Races
- Samuel George Morton (1799-1851)
- Louis Agassiz
- Race and Racism
- Responses
- ch. 14 The Struggle for Existence of Darwin's Theory
- The Dilemma
- The Debate
- "Knight Takes Bishop?"
- Bishop Wilberforce's Criticism
- Contemporary Criticisms of Darwin's Theory
- Darwin as his own Critic
- Fleeming Jenkin's Rejection (1867)
- St. George Jackson Mivart
- Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth
- ch. 15 Darwin: The Descent of Man (1871)
- "The Descent of Man" (1871)
- The Evolution of Emotions
- ch. 16 Charles Darwin: Sexual Selection
- Rationale
- The Examples
- Color Patterns in Birds
- Sexual Selection in Mammals
- Sexual Selection in Human Evolution
- Sexual Selection: Criticism
- ch. 17 Darwin in the Vegetable Kingdom
- The Botanical Work
- On the Evolution of Flowers
- "The Abominable Mystery"
- "Cross- and Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom"
- "The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids are Fertilised"
- "On the Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species"
- Insectivorous Plants
- Climbing Plants
- The Power of Movement in Plants
- ch. 18 Heredity in the 19th Century: What did Darwin Know?
- On Variation
- Character Blending, Inheritance, and the Evolution of New Species
- Hereditary Phenomena that Darwin could not Explain
- The Sudden Appearance of "Monstrosities" during Domestication
- Inheritance Limited by Sex
- Characteristics of Selected Breeds
- The Inheritance of Aberrant Characters in Humans
- Heritable Characters in Plants
- Pangenesis
- ch. 19 Ernst Haeckel: Embryology and Phylogeny in Evolution
- Haeckel and Darwin
- Faith and Science
- The Social Implications of Natural Selection
- Embryology
- Phylogeny
- Human Evolution
- ch. 20 August Weismann: The Theory of the Germ Plasm and the [Non]-Inheritance of Acquired Characters
- Meiosis, Fertilization, Heredity, and Variation
- The Inheritance of Acquired Characters - Lamarck to Weismann (1809 to 1893)
- The Theory of the Germ-Plasm
- Weismann's Bold Hypothesis
- The Structure of the Hereditary Substance
- Ontogeny
- Life and Death
- Evolution
- Criticism of Darwin's Views
- In Support of Weismann's Theory
- Objectors to Weismann's Theory
- 20th-century Comments
- ch. 21 Francis Galton: Quantitative Measurements of Heredity
- His Life and Science
- Statistics
- "Hereditary Genius"
- "Natural Inheritance"
- The Law of Ancestral Heredity
- Pangenesis: An Experimental Examination of Darwin's Hypothesis
- Galton's Theory of Heredity
- Galton's Study of Twins
- The Law of "Regression to the Mean"
- Eugenics
- Fingerprints
- ch. 22 The Biometricians: Karl Pearson
- Advocating a Statistical Approach to Biology
- Applied Statistics: Transmission of Characters between Generations
- Acquired Characters and Tradition in Human Populations
- Natural Selection and Evolution
- Eugenics and Racism
- The Fourth Circle The Theory of Evolution in the 20th Century
- ch. 23 Gregor Mendel and the Origin of Genetics
- The Data and the Model
- R.A. Fisher's Criticism
- Reception of the Model
- T.H. Morgan: What are Mendel's "Factors"?
- "Biometry" and "Mendelism" in Heredity
- ch. 24 Hugo de Vries and the Theory of Mutations
- Intracellular Pangenesis
- The History of the "Mutation" Theory
- "Elementary Species"
- Breeding and the Current Darwinian Selection Theory
- The Theory of Mutations
- The Mutationists
- ch. 25 T.H. Morgan: Drosophila, Genetics, and Evolution
- Chromosomes and Genetics
- Morgan on Evolution
- Advantages of the Mutation Theory
- ch. 26 The Resurrection of the Inheritance of Acquired Characters: from Weismann to Lysenko
- The Dispute
- Kammerer: Education and Zoology
- Experimental Work
- The Case of the Midwife Toad: A Scientific Scandal
- Acquired Characters, Education, and Civilization -
- "Lamarckism" in the Soviet Union: The Heritage of Lysenko
- ch. 27 Genetics in Populations: An Introductory Overview
- Variation in Natural Populations
- Population Genetics in Nature
- The Quantitative Theory of Evolution: Definitions
- The Hardy-Weinberg Law
- Polygenic (Quantitative) Characters
- Selection
- ch. 28 R.A. Fisher: The Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection
- Natural Selection
- Natural Selection and Adaptation
- Mutation, Variation, and Evolution
- Dominance
- The Fundamental Theorem
- Sexual Reproduction and Assortative Mating
- Natural Selection and the Sex Ratio
- On Mimicry
- On Human Society: the Biological Paradox
- Smoking and Lung Cancer
- ch. 29 J.B.S. Haldane: Science in Everyday Life and Genetics in Populations
- "On Being The Right Size"
- Daedalus
- On Genetical Processes in Populations
- Industrial Melanism
- Non-Random Mating: Sib-Mating and Inbreeding
- Trivia
- ch. 30 Sew all Wright: Chance and Evolution in Small Populations
- Systems of Mating
- The Inbreeding Coefficient and Inbreeding Depression
- Path Coefficients
- Evolution in Small Populations
- Genetic Drift and Random Fixation
- The Genetic Fate of Small Populations
- Isolation by Distance
- Gene Flow Among Populations: The Use of Wright's F Statistics
- ch. 31 Theodosius Dobzhansky
- Natural Populations of Drosophila
- Non-Random Mating in Natural Populations
- Genetic Polymorphism in Natural Populations of Drosophila
- Dobzhansky on "Social Darwinism"
- On Human Races
- ch. 32 Ernst Mayr: The Biological Species and Speciation
- Definitions of "Species"
- The Founder Principle
- Speciation and Geographical Clines
- Sympatric Speciation
- ch. 33 Julian Sorell Huxley
- Details of Huxley's Career
- "Problems of Relative Growth"
- Evolution: The Modern Synthesis
- Contents note continued: On the Species Problem
- On Clines
- On Long-Term Trends in Evolution
- Julian Huxley: on Man
- On Eugenics
- The Role of Man in Future Evolution
- ch. 34 Richard Goldschmidt (1878-1958): Genetics, Evolution, and Hopeful Monsters
- Genetic Studies on the Gypsy Moth: Intersexes
- The Physical Structure of the Genetic Material
- Population and Geographical Variation
- Systemic Mutations and Hopeful Monsters
- More on Macro-evolution
- Reactions
- ch. 35 E.B. Ford and H.B.D. Kettlewell: Ecological Genetics
- Geographic Variation in Melanism and Air Pollution
- Polymorphism in the European Land Snail
- Melanism in the Two-Spot Ladybird
- Insecticide Resistance
- Evolution of Heavy-Metal Tolerance in Plants
- Predation in Natural Fish Populations
- ch. 36 Motoo Kimura and the Neutrality Hypothesis
- Modeling Individual Genomes
- The Neutrality Hypothesis
- Supporting Evidence for the Neutrality Hypothesis
- Neutrality of Variation in Evolutionary Thinking
- The Selectionists' Arguments.
- Notes:
- "A science publishers book" -- title page.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780367903336
- 0367903334
- OCLC:
- 1154853655
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