The theory of evolution principles, concepts, and assumptions
"Darwin's nineteenth-century writings laid the foundations for modern studies of evolution, and theoretical developments in the mid-twentieth century fostered the Modern Synthesis. Since that time, a great deal of new biological knowledge has been generated, including details of the geneti...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago ; London
The University of Chicago Press,
[2020]
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| Online Access: | https://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/2023/EBSCO/2252220.pdf |
Table of Contents:
- The theory of evolution / David P. Mindell and Samuel M. Scheiner
- Part 1: Overarching Issues. Historicizing the synthesis: critical insights and pivotal moments in the long history of evolutionary theory / Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis ; Philosophy of evolutionary theory: risky inferences of process from pattern / Patrick Forber ; Modeling evolutionary theories / Patrick C. Phillips ; Traits and homology / James O. McInerney ; The nature of species in evolution / Marco J. Nathan and Joel Cracraft ; The tree of life and the episodic evolutionary synthesis / Maureen Kearney ; Situating evolutionary developmental biology in evolutionary theory / Alan C. Love
- Part 2: Constitutive Theories. The inductive theory of natural selection / Steven A. Frank and Gordon A. Fox ; The theory of multilevel selection / Charles Goodnight ; The demography of fitness: life histories and their evolution / Gordon A. Fox and Samuel M. Scheiner ; The theory of ecological specialization / Timothée Poisot ; The theory of the evolution of phenotypic plasticity / Samuel M. Scheiner ; The evolution of sex / Maria E. Orive ; Speciation / Scott V. Edwards, Robin Hopkins, and James Mallet ; The theory of evolutionary biogeography / Rosemary G. Gillespie, Jun Y. Lim, and Andrew J. Rominger ; Macroevolutionary theory / David Jablonski.