Unfinished Synthesis
Biological Hierarchies and Modern Evolutionary Thought
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1986
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-503633-6 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-503633-6 (ISBN)
This study provides a stimulating critique of contemporary evolutionary thought, analyzing the Modern Synthesis first developed by Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ernst Mayr, and Georgia Gaylord Simpson.
This provocative study provides a stimulating critique of contemporary evolutionary thought, analysing the Modern Synthesis first developed by Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ernst Mayr, and George Gaylord Simpson.
Written by an eminent evolutionary biologist (the co-founder of the theory of punctuated equilibria), this highly readable book argues that only genes and organisms are taken as historic 'individuals' in conventional theory. Eldredge proposes that species, higher taxa, and ecological entities such as populations and communities should also be construed as individuals - an approach yielding the ecological and genealogical hierarchies that interact to produce evolution.
This clearly stated, controversial work will provoke much debate among evolutionary biologists, systematicists, palaeontologists and ecologists, as well as lay readers.
This provocative study provides a stimulating critique of contemporary evolutionary thought, analysing the Modern Synthesis first developed by Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ernst Mayr, and George Gaylord Simpson.
Written by an eminent evolutionary biologist (the co-founder of the theory of punctuated equilibria), this highly readable book argues that only genes and organisms are taken as historic 'individuals' in conventional theory. Eldredge proposes that species, higher taxa, and ecological entities such as populations and communities should also be construed as individuals - an approach yielding the ecological and genealogical hierarchies that interact to produce evolution.
This clearly stated, controversial work will provoke much debate among evolutionary biologists, systematicists, palaeontologists and ecologists, as well as lay readers.
1: Approaching Complexity: Thinking About Evolution
2: Genes and the Evolutionary Synthesis
3: Systematics, Paleontology, and the Modern Synthesis
4: The Structure and Content of the Modern Synthesis
5: Toward Hierarchy: Trends and Tensions in Evolutionary Theory
6: The Evolutionary Hierarchies
7: Hierarchic Interactions: The Evolutionary Process
References
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.2.1986 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | numerous figures and tables |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 241 mm |
| Gewicht | 596 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-503633-6 / 0195036336 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-503633-6 / 9780195036336 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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