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The Evolutionary Synthesis
Perspectives on the Unification of Biology
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Edited by:
Ernst Mayr
and William B. Provine
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
1980
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Mayr Ernst :
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.Provine William 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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Contents
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Prologue: Some Thoughts on the History of the Evolutionary Synthesis
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Introduction
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Theoretical Population Genetics in the Evolutionary Synthesis
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Introduction
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The evolution of Genetic Systems: Contributions of Cytology to Evolutionary Theory
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Cytology in the T. H. Morgan School
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Cytogenetics and the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis
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Introduction
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Embryology and the Modern Synthesis in Evolutionary Theory
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The modern Evolutionary Synthesis and the Biogenetic Law
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The role of Systematics in the Evolutionary Synthesis
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Introduction
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Botany and the Synthetic Theory of Evolution
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Introduction
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G. G. Simpson, Paleontology, and the Modern Synthesis
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Introduction
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Morphology in the Evolutionary Synthesis
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The Failure of Morphology to Assimilate Darwinism
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Severtsov and Schmalhausen: Russian Morphology and the Evolutionary Synthesis
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The Birth of the Genetic Theory of Evolution in the Soviet Union in the 1920s
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Sergei Chetverikov, the Kol'tsov Institute, and the Evolutionary Synthesis
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Introduction
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Historical Development of the Present Synthetic Neo-Darwinism in Germany
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Evolutionary Theory in Germany: a Comment
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Introduction
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Evolutionary Biology in France at the Time of the Evolutionary Synthesis
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The Arrivai of Neo-Darwinism in France
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A Second Glance at Evolutionary Biology in France
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Some Recollections Pertaining to the Evolutionary Synthesis
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Lamarckìsm in Britain and the United States
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A Note on W. L. Tower's Leptinotarsa Work
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Introduction
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The Evolutionary Synthesis: Morgan and Natural Selection Revisited
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Hypotheses That Blur and Grow
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Introduction
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The Meaning of the Evolutionary Synthesis
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14. Epilogue
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How I Became a Darwinian
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Curt Stern
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J. B. S. Haldane, R. A. Fisher, and William Bateson
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Morgan and the Theory of Natural Selection
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Morgan and His School in the 1930s
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G. G. Simpson
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Contributors
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Conference Participants
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Index
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Preface
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