The Structure of Evolutionary Theory /

The Structure of Evolutionary Theory / / Stephen Jay Gould.

The world’s most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time—a landmark publication, both for its historical sweep and for its scientific vision. With characteristic attention to detail, Stephen Jay Gould first describes th...

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Gould, Stephen Jay,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2002]
©2002
Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (1464 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Expanded Contents
  • Chapter 1: Defining and Revising the Structure of Evolutionary Theory
  • Part I: The History of Darwinian Logic and Debate
  • Chapter 2: The Essence of Darwinism and the Basis of Modern Orthodoxy: An Exegesis of the Origin of Species
  • Chapter 3: Seeds of Hierarchy
  • Chapter 4: Internalism and Laws of Form: Pre-Darwinian Alternatives to Functionalism
  • Chapter 5: The Fruitful Facets of Galton’s Polyhedron: Channels and Saltations in Post-Darwinian Formalism
  • Chapter 6: Pattern and Progress on the Geological Stage
  • Chapter 7: The Modern Synthesis as a Limited Consensus
  • Part II: Towards a Revised and Expanded Evolutionary Theory
  • Chapter 8: Species as Individuals in the Hierarchical Theory of Selection
  • Chapter 9: Punctuated Equilibrium and the Validation of Macroevolutionary Theory
  • Chapter 10: The Integration of Constraint and Adaptation (Structure and Function) in Ontogeny and Phylogeny: Historical Constraints and the Evolution of Development
  • Chapter 11: The Integration of Constraint and Adaptation (Structure and Function) in Ontogeny and Phylogeny: Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and the Centrality of Exaptation in Macroevolution
  • Chapter 12: Tiers of Time and Trials of Extrapolationism, With an Epilog on the Interaction of General Theory and Contingent History
  • Bibliography
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index

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