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The Evolutionary Synthesis : Perspectives on the Unification of Biology / William B. Provine, Ernst Mayr.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biologie.
- Biology.
- Biowissenschaften, Biologie.
- Evolucionismo.
- Evolutie.
- Evolutietheorie.
- Evolution (Biology).
- Evolution.
- Evolutionsbiologie.
- Filosofische aspecten.
- Theoretische Biologie.
- Evolution (Biology)--History.
- SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology.
- Local Subjects:
- Evolution (Biology)--History.
- SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (498 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Biology was forged into a single, coherent science only within living memory. In this volume the thinkers responsible for the "modern synthesis" of evolutionary biology and genetics come together to analyze that remarkable event. In a new Preface, Ernst Mayr calls attention to the fact that scientists in different biological disciplines varied considerably in their degree of acceptance of Darwin's theories. Mayr shows us that these differences were played out in four separate periods: 1859 to 1899, 1900 to 1915, 1916 to 1936, and 1937 to 1947. He thus enables us to understand fully why the synthesis was necessary and why Darwin's original theory that evolutionary change is due to the combination of variation and selection is as solid at the end of the twentieth century as it was in 1859.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Prologue: Some Thoughts on the History of the Evolutionary Synthesis / Mayr, Ernst
- PART ONE. Different Biological Disciplines and the Synthesis
- 1. Genetics
- Introduction / Provine, William B.
- Theoretical Population Genetics in the Evolutionary Synthesis / Lewontin, Richard C
- 2. Cytology
- The evolution of Genetic Systems: Contributions of Cytology to Evolutionary Theory / Darlington, C. D.
- Cytology in the T. H. Morgan School / Weinstein, Alexander
- Cytogenetics and the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis / Carson, Hampton L.
- 3. Embryology
- Embryology and the Modern Synthesis in Evolutionary Theory / Hamburger, Viktor
- The modern Evolutionary Synthesis and the Biogenetic Law / Churchill, Frederick B.
- 4. Systematics
- The role of Systematics in the Evolutionary Synthesis / Mayr, Ernst
- 5. Botany
- Introduction / Mayr, Emst
- Botany and the Synthetic Theory of Evolution / Stebbins, G. Ledyard
- 6. Paleontology
- Introduction / Mayr, Ernst
- G. G. Simpson, Paleontology, and the Modern Synthesis / Gould, Stephen Jay
- 7. Morphology
- Morphology in the Evolutionary Synthesis / Coleman, William
- The Failure of Morphology to Assimilate Darwinism / Ghiselin, Michael T.
- Severtsov and Schmalhausen: Russian Morphology and the Evolutionary Synthesis / Adams, Mark B.
- 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 / Dobzhansky, Theodosius
- Sergei Chetverikov, the Kol'tsov Institute, and the Evolutionary Synthesis / Adams, Mark B.
- 9. Germany
- Historical Development of the Present Synthetic Neo-Darwinism in Germany / Rensch, Bernhard
- Evolutionary Theory in Germany: a Comment / Hamburger, Viktor
- 10. France
- Evolutionary Biology in France at the Time of the Evolutionary Synthesis / Boesiger, Ernest
- The Arrivai of Neo-Darwinism in France / Mayr, Ernst
- A Second Glance at Evolutionary Biology in France / Limoges, Camille
- 11. England
- Some Recollections Pertaining to the Evolutionary Synthesis / Ford, E. B.
- Lamarckìsm in Britain and the United States / Burkhardt, Richard W.
- A Note on W. L. Tower's Leptinotarsa Work / Weinstein, Alexander
- 12. United States
- The Evolutionary Synthesis: Morgan and Natural Selection Revisited / Allen, Garland E.
- Hypotheses That Blur and Grow / Carson, Hampton L.
- PART THREE. Final Considerations
- 13. Interpretive Issues in the Evolutionary Synthesis
- The Meaning of the Evolutionary Synthesis / Shapere, Dudley
- Biographical Essays
- How I Became a Darwinian / Mayr, Ernst
- Curt Stern / Mayr, Ernst
- J. B. S. Haldane, R. A. Fisher, and William Bateson / Darlington, C. D.
- Morgan and the Theory of Natural Selection / Weinstein, Alexander
- Morgan and His School in the 1930s / Dohzhansky, Theodosius
- G. G. Simpson / Mayr, Ernst
- Contributors, Conference Participants, Index
- Contributors
- Conference Participants
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-86538-3
- OCLC:
- 1013939223
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