Prologue: Some Thoughts on the History of the Evolutionary Synthesis

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Prologue: Some Thoughts on the History of the Evolutionary Synthesis 1
4. Introduction 51
5. Theoretical Population Genetics in the Evolutionary Synthesis 58
6. Introduction 69
7. The evolution of Genetic Systems: Contributions of Cytology to Evolutionary Theory 70
8. Cytology in the T. H. Morgan School 80
9. Cytogenetics and the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis 86
10. Introduction 96
11. Embryology and the Modern Synthesis in Evolutionary Theory 97
12. The modern Evolutionary Synthesis and the Biogenetic Law 112
13. The role of Systematics in the Evolutionary Synthesis 123
14. Introduction 137
15. Botany and the Synthetic Theory of Evolution 139
16. Introduction 153
17. G. G. Simpson, Paleontology, and the Modern Synthesis 153
18. Introduction 173
19. Morphology in the Evolutionary Synthesis 174
20. The Failure of Morphology to Assimilate Darwinism 180
21. Severtsov and Schmalhausen: Russian Morphology and the Evolutionary Synthesis 193
22. The Birth of the Genetic Theory of Evolution in the Soviet Union in the 1920s 229
23. Sergei Chetverikov, the Kol'tsov Institute, and the Evolutionary Synthesis 242
24. Introduction 279
25. Historical Development of the Present Synthetic Neo-Darwinism in Germany 284
26. Evolutionary Theory in Germany: a Comment 303
27. Introduction 309
28. Evolutionary Biology in France at the Time of the Evolutionary Synthesis 309
29. The Arrivai of Neo-Darwinism in France 321
30. A Second Glance at Evolutionary Biology in France 322
31. Introduction 329
32. Some Recollections Pertaining to the Evolutionary Synthesis 334
33. Lamarckìsm in Britain and the United States 343
34. A Note on W. L. Tower's Leptinotarsa Work 352
35. Introduction 354
36. The Evolutionary Synthesis: Morgan and Natural Selection Revisited 356
37. Hypotheses That Blur and Grow 383
38. Introduction 387
39. The Meaning of the Evolutionary Synthesis 388
40. 14. Epilogue 399
41. How I Became a Darwinian 413
42. Curt Stern 424
43. J. B. S. Haldane, R. A. Fisher, and William Bateson 430
44. Morgan and the Theory of Natural Selection 432
45. Morgan and His School in the 1930s 445
46. G. G. Simpson 452
47. Contributors 467
48. Conference Participants 468
49. Index 469
50. Preface ix