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The structure of evolutionary theory /

"With attention to detail, Stephen Jay Gould first describes the content and discusses the history and origins of the three core commitments of classical Darwinism: that natural selection works on organisms, not genes or species; that it is almost exclusively the mechanism of adaptive evolution...

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Основен автор: Gould, Stephen Jay.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Structure of evolutionary theory
Съдържание:
  • Defining and revising the structure of evolutionary theory
  • PART I: THE HISTORY OF DARWINIAN LOGIC AND DEBATE: The essence of Darwinism and the basis of modern orthodoxy: an exegesis of the Origin of Species
  • Seeds of hierarchy
  • Internalism and laws of form: pre-Darwinian alternatives to functionalism
  • The fruitful facets of Galton's polyhedron; channels and saltations in post-Darwinian formalism
  • Pattern and progress on the geological stage
  • The modern synthesis as a limited consensus
  • PART II: TOWARDS A REVISED AND EXPANDED EVOLUTIONARY THEORY: Species as individuals in the hierarchical theory of selection
  • Punctuated equilibrium and the validation of macroevolutionary theory
  • The integration of constraint and adaptation (structure and function) in ontogeny and phylogeny: historical constraints and the evolution of development
  • The integration of constraint and adaptation (structure and function) in ontogeny and phylogeny: structural constraints, spandrels, and the centrality of exaptation in macroevolution
  • Tiers of time and trials of extrapolationism, with an epilog on the interaction of general theory and contingent theory.