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.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.