The Darwinian Tradition in Context Research Programs in Evolutionary Biology /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Delisle, Richard G. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; History.; Philosophy.; Biology > Philosophy.; Developmental biology.; Evolutionary biology.; Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.; History of Science.; Philosophy of Biology.; Developmental Biology.; History of Philosophy.

It is the main goal of this volume to put in context the Darwinian tradition by raising questions such as: How should it be defined? Did it interacted with other research programs? Where there any research programs whose developments were largely conducted independently of the Darwinian tradition? C...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• Darwinism or a Kaleidoscope of Research Programs and Ideas?
• Part I. From a Pluralistic Darwinism to an Ever More Inclusive Darwinism
• 2. Selfish Genes and Lucky Breaks: Richard Dawkins' and Stephen Jay Gould's  Divergent Darwinian Agendas
• 3.The Behavioral Sciences and Sociobiology: A Darwinian Approach
• 4. Darwinism in the 20th Century: Productive Encounters with Saltation, Acquired Characteristics, and Development
• 5. Darwinism after the Modern Synthesis
• Human Evolution as a Theoretical Model for an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
• Part II. Crossing the Boundaries: Between non-Darwinian and Darwinian
• 6. From Charles Darwin to the Evolutionary Synthesis: Weak and Diffused Connections Only
• 7. Major Research Traditions in 20th Century Evolutionary Biology: The Relations of Germany's Darwinism with Them
• 8. Alternatives to Darwinism in the Early Twentieth Century
• 9. The Organismal Synthesis: Holistic Science and Developmental Evolution in the English-Speaking World, 1915–1954
• 10. Lamarckian Research Programs in French Biology (1900-1970)
• 11. Molecularizing Evolutionary Biology
• 12. Cells, Development, and Evolution: Teeth Studies at the Intersection of Fields
• 13. Symbiogenesis and Cell Evolution: an Anti-Darwinian Research Agenda?
• 14. Paleobiology’s Uneasy Relationship with the Darwinian Tradition: Stasis as Data.