Unfinished synthesis : biological hierarchies and modern evolutionary thought
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Unfinished synthesis : biological hierarchies and modern evolutionary thought
Oxford University Press, 1985
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Hokkaido University, Library, Graduate School of Science, Faculty of Science and School of Science図書
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ISBN 9780195036336
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This provocative study provides a stimulating critique of contemporary evolutionary thought, analysing the Modern Synthesis first developed by Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ernst Mayr, and George Gaylord Simpson.
Written by an eminent evolutionary biologist (the co-founder of the theory of punctuated equilibria), this highly readable book argues that only genes and organisms are taken as historic 'individuals' in conventional theory. Eldredge proposes that species, higher taxa, and ecological entities such as populations and communities should also be construed as individuals - an approach yielding the ecological and genealogical hierarchies that interact to produce evolution.
This clearly stated, controversial work will provoke much debate among evolutionary biologists, systematicists, palaeontologists and ecologists, as well as lay readers.
Table of Contents
1: Approaching Complexity: Thinking About Evolution
2: Genes and the Evolutionary Synthesis
3: Systematics, Paleontology, and the Modern Synthesis
4: The Structure and Content of the Modern Synthesis
5: Toward Hierarchy: Trends and Tensions in Evolutionary Theory
6: The Evolutionary Hierarchies
7: Hierarchic Interactions: The Evolutionary Process
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pbk. ISBN 9780195055740
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This provocative study provides a stimulating critique of contemporary evolutionary thought, analyzing the Modern Synthesis first developed by Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ernst Mayr, and George Gaylord Simpson. Written by an eminent evolutionary biologist (the co-founder of the theory of punctuated equilibria), this highly readable book argues that only genes and organisms are taken as historic 'individuals' in conventional theory. Eldredge proposes that species, higher taxa, and ecological entities such as populations and communities should also be construed as individuals - an approach yielding the ecological and genealogical hierarchies that interact to produce evolution. This clearly stated, controversial work will provoke much debate among evolutionary biologists, systematicists, palaeontologists and ecologists, as well as lay readers. Readership: evolutionary biologists; palaeontologists.
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