The Evolutionary Synthesis : : Perspectives on the Unification of Biology / / ed. by William B. Provine, Ernst Mayr.

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• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Mark B.,; Allen, Garland E.,; Boesiger, Ernest,; Burkhardt, Richard W.,; Carson, Hampton L.,; Churchill, Frederick B.,; Coleman, William,; Darlington, C. D.,; Dobzhansky, Theodosius,; Dohzhansky, Theodosius,; Ford, E. B.,; Ghiselin, Michael T.,; Gould, Stephen Jay,; Hamburger, Viktor,; Lewontin, Richard C,; Limoges, Camille,; Mayr, Emst,; Mayr, Ernst,; Provine, William B.,; Provine, William В.,; Rensch, Bernhard,; Shapere, Dudley,; Stebbins, G. Ledyard,; Weinstein, Alexander,
• HerausgeberIn: Mayr, Ernst,; Provine, William B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (487 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Prologue: Some Thoughts on the History of the Evolutionary Synthesis --; Introduction --; Theoretical Population Genetics in the Evolutionary Synthesis --; The evolution of Genetic Systems: Contributions of Cytology to Evolutionary Theory --; Cytology in the T. H. Morgan School --; Cytogenetics and the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis --; Embryology and the Modern Synthesis in Evolutionary Theory --; The modern Evolutionary Synthesis and the Biogenetic Law --; The role of Systematics in the Evolutionary Synthesis --; Botany and the Synthetic Theory of Evolution --; G. G. Simpson, Paleontology, and the Modern Synthesis --; Morphology in the Evolutionary Synthesis --; The Failure of Morphology to Assimilate Darwinism --; Severtsov and Schmalhausen: Russian Morphology and the Evolutionary Synthesis --; The Birth of the Genetic Theory of Evolution in the Soviet Union in the 1920s --; Sergei Chetverikov, the Kol'tsov Institute, and the Evolutionary Synthesis --; Historical Development of the Present Synthetic Neo-Darwinism in Germany --; Evolutionary Theory in Germany: a Comment --; Evolutionary Biology in France at the Time of the Evolutionary Synthesis --; The Arrivai of Neo-Darwinism in France --; A Second Glance at Evolutionary Biology in France --; Some Recollections Pertaining to the Evolutionary Synthesis --; Lamarckìsm in Britain and the United States --; A Note on W. L. Tower's Leptinotarsa Work --; The Evolutionary Synthesis: Morgan and Natural Selection Revisited --; Hypotheses That Blur and Grow --; The Meaning of the Evolutionary Synthesis --; 14. Epilogue --; How I Became a Darwinian --; Curt Stern --; J. B. S. Haldane, R. A. Fisher, and William Bateson --; Morgan and the Theory of Natural Selection --; Morgan and His School in the 1930s --; G. G. Simpson --; Contributors --; Conference Participants --; Index --; Preface
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674865389; 9783110353488; 9783110353549; 9783110442212
• DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674865389
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by William B. Provine, Ernst Mayr.