Chapter 1: Defining and Revising the Structure of Evolutionary Theory

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Expanded Contents ix
4. Chapter 1: Defining and Revising the Structure of Evolutionary Theory 1
5. Part I: The History of Darwinian Logic and Debate
6. Chapter 2: The Essence of Darwinism and the Basis of Modern Orthodoxy: An Exegesis of the Origin of Species 91
7. Chapter 3: Seeds of Hierarchy 170
8. Chapter 4: Internalism and Laws of Form: Pre-Darwinian Alternatives to Functionalism 251
9. Chapter 5: The Fruitful Facets of Galton’s Polyhedron: Channels and Saltations in Post-Darwinian Formalism 342
10. Chapter 6: Pattern and Progress on the Geological Stage 467
11. Chapter 7: The Modern Synthesis as a Limited Consensus 503
12. Part II: Towards a Revised and Expanded Evolutionary Theory
13. Chapter 8: Species as Individuals in the Hierarchical Theory of Selection 593
14. Chapter 9: Punctuated Equilibrium and the Validation of Macroevolutionary Theory 745
15. Chapter 10: The Integration of Constraint and Adaptation (Structure and Function) in Ontogeny and Phylogeny: Historical Constraints and the Evolution of Development 1025
16. Chapter 11: The Integration of Constraint and Adaptation (Structure and Function) in Ontogeny and Phylogeny: Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and the Centrality of Exaptation in Macroevolution 1179
17. Chapter 12: Tiers of Time and Trials of Extrapolationism, With an Epilog on the Interaction of General Theory and Contingent History 1296
18. Bibliography 1344
19. Illustration Credits 1388
20. Index 1393