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

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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.

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