Marjorie Grene

Dimensions of Darwinism

Themes and Counterthemes in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Theory
Herausgeber: Grene, Marjorie

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays analyses the development, meaning and problems of twentieth-century evolutionary theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 565g
• ISBN-13: 9780521310215
• ISBN-10: 0521310210
• Artikelnr.: 28530812

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction Marjorie Grene; Part I.
The Developing Synthesis: 1. Fisher's entrance into evolutionary science:
the role of eugenics Bernard Norton; 2. The abandonment of Lamarckian
explanations: the case of climatic parallelism of animal characteristics
Bernhard Rensch; 3. The development of Wright's theory of evolution:
systematics, adaptation, and drift William B. Provine; 4. The hardening of
the modern synthesis Stephen Jay Gould; Part II. Mimetic Theory: Its
Relation to the History of Evolutionary Biology: 5. Mimicry: views of
naturalists and ecologists before the modern synthesis William C. Kimler;
6. 'The hypothesis that explains mimetic resemblance explains evolution':
the gradualist-saltationist schism John R. G. Turner; Part III. The German
Paleontological and Morphological Tradition: 7. Evolutionary theory in
German paleontology Wolf-Ernst Reif; 8. The role of morphology in the
theory of evolution Rupert Riedl; Part IV. Some Contemporary Issues: The
Synthesis Reconsidered: 9. Paleobiology at the crossroads: a critique of
some modern paleobiological research programs Antoni Hoffman; 10. Current
controversies in evolutionary biology John Maynard Smith; 11. 'Adaptation'
Richard M. Burian; 12. Evolutionary theory and its consequences for the
concept of adaptation D. S. Peters.