Controversies in retrospect

Abstract

Abstract No one who has not witnessed it himself can imagine the confusion and dissension that characterized the views of the evolutionists in the pre­ Synthesis period. That we ever got out of this confusion, and that the major step happened so rapidly during the so-called Evolutionary Synthesis, seems almost a miracle. In order to place on record how one pre-Synthesis evolutionist became modernized, the editors of Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology suggested to me that I should present ‘a somewhat autobiographical account of how and why your views were formed and changed during your career, and how your own experience and ideas reflect the changes in evolutionary biology during this time.

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