Unfinished Synthesis
Biological Hierarchies and Modern Evolutionary Thought
1st Edition
Published on 21. November 1985
248 pages
978-0-19-536513-9 (ISBN)
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This study provides a stimulating critique of contemporary evolutionary thought, analyzing the Modern Synthesis first developed by Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ernst Mayr, and George Gaylord Simpson. The author argues that although only genes and organisms are taken as historic "individuals" in conventional theory, species, higher taxa, and ecological entities such as populations and communities should also be construed as individuals--an approach that yields the ecological and genealogical hierarchies that interact to produce evolution. This clearly stated, controversial work will provoke much debate among evolutionary biologists, systematists, paleontologists, and ecologists, as well as a wide range of educated lay readers.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Chapter 1 Approaching Complexity: Thinking About Evolution
- Chapter 2 Genes and the Evolutionary Synthesis
- Chapter 3 Systematics, Paleontology, and the Modern Synthesis
- Chapter 4 The Structure and Content of the Modern Synthesis
- Chapter 5 Toward Hierarchy: Trends and Tensions in Evolutionary Theory
- Chapter 6 The Evolutionary Hierarchies
- Chapter 7 Hierarchic Interactions: The Evolutionary Process
- References
- Index
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