The Evolutionary Synthesis

Perspectives on the Unification of Biology, With a New Preface

By: Ernst Mayr (Editor), William B. Provine (Editor)

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Biology was forged into a single, coherent science only within living memory. In this volume the thinkers responsible for the "modern synthesis" of evolutionary biology and genetics come together to analyze that remarkable event.

In a new Preface, Ernst Mayr calls attention to the fact that scientists in different biological disciplines varied considerably in their degree of acceptance of Darwin's theories. Mayr shows us that these differences were played out in four separate periods: 1859 to 1899, 1900 to 1915, 1916 to 1936, and 1937 to 1947. He thus enables us to understand fully why the synthesis was necessary and why Darwin's original theory-that evolutionary change is due to the combination of variation and selection-is as solid at the end of the twentieth century as it was in 1859.

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If you want to know how genetics and evolutionary biology were forged into a monolithic Darwinian whole, then read The Evolutionary Synthesis. These reissued transcripts date from a conference in 1974, when many of the architects of the synthesis were still around to present their own personal recollections. New Scientist [UK] Praise for the first edition: [This] book will appeal to anyone, evolutionist or not, who is interested in the history and philosophy of science. -- Matt Cartmill New England Journal of Medicine Classic essays by key players in the 'modern synthesis' of evolutionary biology. Nature This book provides not only a good history of the evolutionary synthesis, but many new scientific insights and ideas. I found myself rethinking a number of subtle and some not-so-subtle points of evolutionary theory while reading this historical work...The Evolutionary Synthesisis a major contribution to the history of biology, and for the specialist in evolutionary biology it is an important scientific work. -- Walter J. Bock Auk If you want to know how genetics and evolutionary biology were forged into a monolithic Darwinian whole, then read The Evolutionary Synthesis. New Scientist [UK]

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Preface, 1998
Preface to the Original Edition
Prologue
Some Thoughts on the History of the Evolutionary Synthesis
Different Biological Disciplines and the Synthesis Genetics Introduction
Theoretical Population Genetics in the Evolutionary Synthesis
Cytology Introduction
The Evolution of Genetic Systems: Contributions of Cytology to Evolutionary Theory
Cytology in the T.H. Morgan School
Cytogenetics and the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis
Embryology Introduction
Embryology and the Modern Synthesis in Evolutionary Theory
The Modern Evolutionary Synthesis and the Biogenetic Law
Systematics The Role of Systematics in the Evolutionary Synthesis
Botany Introduction
Botany and the Synthetic Theory of Evolution
Paleontology Introduction
Paleontology, and the Modern Synthesis
Morphology Introduction
Morphology in the Evolutionary Synthesis
The Failure of Morphology to Assimilate Darwinism
Severtsov and Schmalhausen: Russian Morphology and the Evolutionary Synthesis
The Synthesis in Different Countries Soviet Union
The Birth of the Genetic Theory of Evolution in the Soviet Union in the 1920s
Sergei Chetverikov, the Kol'tsov Institute, and the Evolutionary Synthesis
Germany Introduction
Historical Development of the Present Synthetic Neo-Darwinism in Germany
Evolutionary Theory in Germany: A Comment Viktor Hamburger France Introduction
Evolutionary Biology in France at the Time of the Evolutionary Synthesis
The Arrival of Neo-Darwinism in France
A Second Glance at Evolutionary Biology in France
England Introduction William B. Provine
Some Recollections Pertaining to the Evolutionary Synthesis
A Note on W.L. Tower's Leptinotarsa Work
United States Introduction
The Evolutionary Synthesis: Morgan and Natural Selection Revisited
Hypotheses That Blur and Grow
Final Considerations Interpretive Issues in the Evolutionary Synthesis Introduction
The Meaning of the Evolutionary Synthesis
Epilogue
Biographical Essays How I Became a Darwinian
Curt Stem
Morgan and the Theory of Natural Selection
Morgan and His School in the 1930s
Contributors
Conference Participants
Index
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