Orthogenesis versus Darwinism

• Main Author: Popov, Igor (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Evolutionary biology.; Animal genetics.; Biology-History.; Paleontology .; Evolutionary Biology.; Animal Genetics and Genomics.; History of Biology.; Paleontology.

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...