Dimensions of Darwinism: Themes and Counterthemes in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Theory

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ISBN: 9780521310215 | 0521310210
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Copyright: 3/31/1986

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This collection of twelve essays by biologists, historians, and philosophers examines the growth and conceptual structure of the modern evolutionary synthesis, or 'neo-Darwinism'. Taken as a whole, it provides a penetrating analysis of the development, meaning and problems of twentieth-century evolutionary theory.

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List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction Marjorie Grene
The Developing Synthesis
Fisher's entrance into evolutionary science: the role of eugenics
The abandonment of Lamarckian explanations: the case of climatic parallelism of animal characteristics
The development of Wright's theory of evolution: systematics, adaptation, and drift
The hardening of the modern synthesis
Mimetic Theory: Its Relation to the History of Evolutionary Biology
Mimicry: views of naturalists and ecologists before the modern synthesis
'The hypothesis that explains mimetic resemblance explains evolution': the gradualist-saltationist schism
The German Paleontological and Morphological Tradition
Evolutionary theory in German paleontology
The role of morphology in the theory of evolution
Some Contemporary Issues: The Synthesis Reconsidered
Paleobiology at the crossroads: a critique of some modern paleobiological research programs
Current controversies in evolutionary biology
'Adaptation'
Evolutionary theory and its consequences for the concept of adaptation
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Dimensions of Darwinism: Themes and Counterthemes in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Theory

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