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...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1. Orthogenesis: a history
• Chapter 1. The sources. Formation of the concept of directed evolution in the 19th century
• Chapter 2. Evolutionary biology at the turn of the 20th century. New concepts of directed evolution in the 1900-1930s
• Chapter 3. Declarations in favour of orthogenesis in the 1900-1930s
• Chapter 4. Orthogenesis and the modern evolutionary synthesis
• Chapter 5. New concepts of directed evolution in the recent history of evolutionary biology
• Chapter 6. Statements in support of orthogenesis in the 1950s and later
• Part 2. Orthogenesis: Pro et Contra
• Chapter 7. "Laws" in biology. - Chapter 8. Species senescence
• Chapter 9. Adaptation or non-adaptation?
• Chapter 10. Anticipation, parallelisms and convergences
• Chapter 11. Constraints on variation
• Chapter 12. Direct impact of the environment on evolution and the inheritance of acquired characteristics
• Chapter 13. Mystics or unrealised synthesis? Chapter 14. Conclusion.