Orthogenesis versus Darwinism

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Popov, Igor (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Evolutionary biology.; Animal genetics.; Biology-History.; Paleontology .; Evolutionary Biology.; Animal Genetics and Genomics.; History of Biology.; Paleontology.
• Φυσική περιγραφή: VI, 209 p. 19 illus., 3 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319951447
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-95144-7

This book reviews the convoluted history of orthogenesis with an emphasis of non-English sources, untangles relationships between various concepts of directed evolution and argues whether orthogenesis has something to offer modern biology. Darwinism claims that evolution occurs by selection from an extensive random variability. An alternative viewpoint-that the material for variability is limited and organisms are predisposed to vary in certain directions-is the essence of evolutionary concepts that can be grouped together under the name of orthogenesis. Dating back to Lamarck, orthogenesis has existed in many guises. Branded as mystical and discarded as unscientific, it keeps re-emerging in evolutionary discussions.