Ernst Mayr

The Evolutionary Synthesis

The role of Systematics in the Evolutionary Synthesis

Harvard University Press | 2013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674865389.c17
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The Evolutionary Synthesis

Chapters in this book (50)

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