The Evolutionary Synthesis

Published by Harvard University Press 2013

The Evolutionary Synthesis

Perspectives on the Unification of Biology

Edited by: Ernst Mayr and William B. Provine

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674865389

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MayrErnst:

Ernst Mayr was Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He was the recipient of numerous honorary degrees and awards, including the Crafoord Prize for Biology, the National Medal of Science, the Balzan Prize, and the Japan Prize.ProvineWilliam B.:

William Provine is Professor of the History of Biology and Charles A. Alexander Professor of Biological Sciences at Cornell University. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has held a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1988 he won Cornell's Clark Distinguished Teaching Award.

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Prologue: Some Thoughts on the History of the Evolutionary Synthesis Ernst Mayr Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	1
Introduction William B. Provine Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	51
Theoretical Population Genetics in the Evolutionary Synthesis Richard C Lewontin Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	58
Introduction William B. Provine Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	69
The evolution of Genetic Systems: Contributions of Cytology to Evolutionary Theory C. D. Darlington Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	70
Cytology in the T. H. Morgan School Alexander Weinstein Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	80
Cytogenetics and the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis Hampton L. Carson Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	86
Introduction William B. Provine Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	96
Embryology and the Modern Synthesis in Evolutionary Theory Viktor Hamburger Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	97
The modern Evolutionary Synthesis and the Biogenetic Law Frederick B. Churchill Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	112
The role of Systematics in the Evolutionary Synthesis Ernst Mayr Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	123
Introduction Emst Mayr Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	137
Botany and the Synthetic Theory of Evolution G. Ledyard Stebbins Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	139
Introduction Ernst Mayr Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	153
G. G. Simpson, Paleontology, and the Modern Synthesis Stephen Jay Gould Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	153
Introduction Emst Mayr Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	173
Morphology in the Evolutionary Synthesis William Coleman Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	174
The Failure of Morphology to Assimilate Darwinism Michael T. Ghiselin Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	180
Severtsov and Schmalhausen: Russian Morphology and the Evolutionary Synthesis Mark B. Adams Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	193
The Birth of the Genetic Theory of Evolution in the Soviet Union in the 1920s Theodosius Dobzhansky Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	229
Sergei Chetverikov, the Kol'tsov Institute, and the Evolutionary Synthesis Mark B. Adams Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	242
Introduction Emst Mayr Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	279
Historical Development of the Present Synthetic Neo-Darwinism in Germany Bernhard Rensch Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	284
Evolutionary Theory in Germany: a Comment Viktor Hamburger Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	303
Introduction Ernst Mayr Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	309
Evolutionary Biology in France at the Time of the Evolutionary Synthesis Ernest Boesiger Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	309
The Arrivai of Neo-Darwinism in France Ernst Mayr Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	321
A Second Glance at Evolutionary Biology in France Camille Limoges Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	322
Introduction William B. Provine Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	329
Some Recollections Pertaining to the Evolutionary Synthesis E. B. Ford Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	334
Lamarckìsm in Britain and the United States Richard W. Burkhardt Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	343
A Note on W. L. Tower's Leptinotarsa Work Alexander Weinstein Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	352
Introduction William B. Provine Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	354
The Evolutionary Synthesis: Morgan and Natural Selection Revisited Garland E. Allen Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	356
Hypotheses That Blur and Grow Hampton L. Carson Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	383
Introduction William B. Provine Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	387
The Meaning of the Evolutionary Synthesis Dudley Shapere Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	388
14. Epilogue William В. Provine Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	399
How I Became a Darwinian Ernst Mayr Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	413
Curt Stern Ernst Mayr Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	424
J. B. S. Haldane, R. A. Fisher, and William Bateson C. D. Darlington Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	430
Morgan and the Theory of Natural Selection Alexander Weinstein Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	432
Morgan and His School in the 1930s Theodosius Dohzhansky Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	445
G. G. Simpson Ernst Mayr Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	452
Contributors Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	467
Conference Participants Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	468
Index Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	469
Preface Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	ix

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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Edition: Reprint 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 487
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 3
- Tables: 1
Keywords: Evolution (Biology) -- History.; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology

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Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780674865389

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Published: February 5, 1980
ISBN: 9780674865372