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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.