Dimensions of Darwinism : themes and counterthemes in twentieth century evolutionary theory / edited by Marjorie Grene.
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Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Paris :
Cambridge University Press ; Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme,
1983.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. The developing synthesis: Fisher's entrance into evolutionary science: the role of eugenics / Bernard Norton
- The abandonment of Lamarckian explanations: the case of climatic parallelism of animal characteristics / Bernhard Rensch
- The development of Wright's theory of evolution: systematics, adaptation, and drift / William B. Provine
- The hardening of the modern synthesis / Stephen Jay Gould
- pt. 2. Mimetic theory: its relation to the history of evolutionary biology: Mimicry: views of naturalists and ecologists before the modern synthesis / William C. Kimler
- "The hypothesis that explains mimetic resemblance explains evolution": the gradualist-saltationist schism / John R.G. Turner
- pt. 3. The German paleontological and morphological tradition: Evolutionary theory in German paleontology / Wolf-Ernst Reif
- The role of morphology in the theory of evolution / Rupert Riedl
- pt. 4. Some contemporary issues: the synthesis reconsidered: Paleobiology at the crossroads: a critique of some modern paleobiological research programs / Antoni Hoffman
- Current controversies in evolutionary biology / John Maynard Smith
- "Adaptation" / Richard M. Burain
- Evolutionary theory and its consequences for the concept of adaptation / D.S. Peters.