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.)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue: Some Thoughts on the History of the Evolutionary Synthesis -- Introduction -- Theoretical Population Genetics in the Evolutionary Synthesis -- Introduction -- The evolution of Genetic Systems: Contributions of Cytology to Evolutionary Theory -- Cytology in the T. H. Morgan School -- Cytogenetics and the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis -- Introduction -- Embryology and the Modern Synthesis in Evolutionary Theory -- The modern Evolutionary Synthesis and the Biogenetic Law -- The role of Systematics in the Evolutionary Synthesis -- Introduction -- Botany and the Synthetic Theory of Evolution -- Introduction -- G. G. Simpson, Paleontology, and the Modern Synthesis -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- Historical Development of the Present Synthetic Neo-Darwinism in Germany -- Evolutionary Theory in Germany: a Comment -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- Some Recollections Pertaining to the Evolutionary Synthesis -- Lamarckìsm in Britain and the United States -- A Note on W. L. Tower's Leptinotarsa Work -- Introduction -- The Evolutionary Synthesis: Morgan and Natural Selection Revisited -- Hypotheses That Blur and Grow -- Introduction -- 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