The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology

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The Evolutionary Synthesis

Perspectives on the Unification of Biology

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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Prologue: Some Thoughts on the History of the Evolutionary Synthesis
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Ernst Mayr

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Introduction
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William B. Provine

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Theoretical Population Genetics in the Evolutionary Synthesis
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Richard C Lewontin

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Introduction
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William B. Provine

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The evolution of Genetic Systems: Contributions of Cytology to Evolutionary Theory
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C. D. Darlington

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Cytology in the T. H. Morgan School
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Alexander Weinstein

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Cytogenetics and the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis
86
Hampton L. Carson

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Introduction
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William B. Provine

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Embryology and the Modern Synthesis in Evolutionary Theory
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Viktor Hamburger

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The modern Evolutionary Synthesis and the Biogenetic Law
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Frederick B. Churchill

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The role of Systematics in the Evolutionary Synthesis
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Ernst Mayr

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Introduction
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Emst Mayr

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Botany and the Synthetic Theory of Evolution
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G. Ledyard Stebbins

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Introduction
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Ernst Mayr

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G. G. Simpson, Paleontology, and the Modern Synthesis
153
Stephen Jay Gould

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Introduction
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Emst Mayr

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Morphology in the Evolutionary Synthesis
174
William Coleman

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The Failure of Morphology to Assimilate Darwinism
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Michael T. Ghiselin

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Severtsov and Schmalhausen: Russian Morphology and the Evolutionary Synthesis
193
Mark B. Adams

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The Birth of the Genetic Theory of Evolution in the Soviet Union in the 1920s
229
Theodosius Dobzhansky

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Sergei Chetverikov, the Kol'tsov Institute, and the Evolutionary Synthesis
242
Mark B. Adams

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Introduction
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Emst Mayr

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Historical Development of the Present Synthetic Neo-Darwinism in Germany
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Bernhard Rensch

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Evolutionary Theory in Germany: a Comment
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Viktor Hamburger

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Introduction
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Ernst Mayr

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Evolutionary Biology in France at the Time of the Evolutionary Synthesis
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Ernest Boesiger

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The Arrivai of Neo-Darwinism in France
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Ernst Mayr

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A Second Glance at Evolutionary Biology in France
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Camille Limoges

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Introduction
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William B. Provine

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Some Recollections Pertaining to the Evolutionary Synthesis
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E. B. Ford

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Lamarckìsm in Britain and the United States
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Richard W. Burkhardt

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A Note on W. L. Tower's Leptinotarsa Work
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Alexander Weinstein

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Introduction
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William B. Provine

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The Evolutionary Synthesis: Morgan and Natural Selection Revisited
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Garland E. Allen

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Hypotheses That Blur and Grow
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Hampton L. Carson

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Introduction
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William B. Provine

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The Meaning of the Evolutionary Synthesis
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Dudley Shapere

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14. Epilogue
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William В. Provine

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How I Became a Darwinian
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Ernst Mayr

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Curt Stern
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Ernst Mayr

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J. B. S. Haldane, R. A. Fisher, and William Bateson
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C. D. Darlington

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Morgan and the Theory of Natural Selection
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Alexander Weinstein

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Morgan and His School in the 1930s
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Theodosius Dohzhansky

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G. G. Simpson
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Ernst Mayr

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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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The Evolutionary Synthesis

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Author / Editor information

Topics

Table of contents

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

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