Book ID: CBB000002720

The evolutionary synthesis: Perspectives on the unification of biology (1980)

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Mayr, Ernst (Editor)
Provine, William B. (Editor)


Harvard University Press


Publication Date: 1980
Physical Details: xi + 478 pp.; bibls.; index

Description Contents: Mayr, Ernst: Some thoughts on the history of the evolutionary synthesis. Lewontin, Richard C.: Theoretical population genetics in the evolutionary synthesis. Darlington, C. D.: The evolution of genetic systems: Contributions of cytology to evolutionary theory. Weinstein, Alexander: Cytology in the T.H. Morgan school. Carson, Hampton L.: Cytogenetics and the neo-Darwinian synthesis. Hamburger, Viktor: Embryology and the modern synthesis in evolutionary theory. Churchill, Frederick B.: The modern evolutionary synthesis and the biogenetic law. Mayr, Ernst: The role of systematics in the evolutionary synthesis. Stebbins, G. Ledyard: Botany and the synthetic theory of evolution. Gould, Stephen Jay: G. G. Simpson, paleontology, and the modern synthesis. Coleman, William: Morphology in the evolutionary synthesis. Ghiselin, Michael T.: The failure of morphology to assimilate Darwinism. Adams, Mark B.: Severtsov and Schmalhausen: Russian morphology and the evolutionary synthesis. Dobzhansky, Theodosius: The birth of the genetic theory of evolution in the Soviet Union in the 1920s. Adams, Mark B.: Sergei Chetverikov, the Kol'tsvo Institute, and the evolutionary synthesis. Rensch, Bernhard: Historical development of the present synthetic neo-Darwinsism in Germany. Hamburger, Viktor: Evolutionary theory in Germany: A comment. Boesiger, Ernest: Evolutionary biology in France at the time of the evolutinary synthesis. Mayr, Ernst: The arrival of neo-Darwinism in France. Limoges, Camille: A second glance at evolutionary biology in France. Ford, E. B.: Some recollections pertaining to the evolutionary synthesis. Burkhardt, Richard W., Jr.: Lamarckism in Britain and the United States. Weinstein, Alexander: A note on W. L. Tower's Leptinotarsa work. Allen, Garland E.: The evolutionary synthesis: Morgan and natural selection revisited. Carson, Hampton L.: Hypotheses that blur and grow. Shapere, Dudley: The meaning of the evolutionary synthesis. Mayr, Ernst: How I became a Darwinian. Mayr, Ernst: Curt Stern. Darlington, C. D.: J. B. S. Haldane, R. A. Fisher, and William Bateson. Weinstein, Alexander: Morgan and the theory of natural selection. Dobzhansky, Theodosius: Morgan and his school in the 1930s. Mayr, Ernst: G. G. Simpson.


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Hateren, J. H. van
Bill Mesler
Cleaves, H. James, II
Vellend, Mark
Lu, Yixi
Roger H. Lieberman
Journals
Biology and Philosophy
Journal of the History of Biology
Victorian Literature and Culture
Social Studies of Science
Revue de Synthèse
Journal of the History of Ideas
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University of Michigan Press
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Princeton University Press
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Concepts
Evolution
Biology
Evolutionary developmental biology
Ecology
Aesthetics
Science and religion
People
Darwin, Charles Robert
Huxley, Julian Sorell
Fisher, Ronald Aylmer
Wilde, Oscar
Tyndall, John
Quatrefages de Bréau, Jean Louis Armand de
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20th century
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