The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: Roots of Evo-Devo

Գրքի շապիկի երեսը
Cambridge University Press, 14 մրտ, 2005 թ.
In this book Ron Amundson examines two hundred years of scientific views on the evolution-development relationship from the perspective of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo). This perspective challenges several popular views about the history of evolutionary thought by claiming that many earlier authors had made history come out right for the Evolutionary Synthesis. The book starts with a revised history of nineteenth-century evolutionary thought. It then investigates how development became irrelevant with the Evolutionary Synthesis. It concludes with an examination of the contrasts that persist between mainstream evolutionary theory and evo-devo. This book will appeal to students and professionals in the philosophy and history of science, and biology.
 

Բովանդակություն

Acknowledgments page xiii
1
BEYOND THE ESSENTIALISM STORY
24
Systematics and the Birth of the Natural System
31
The Origins of Morphology the Science of Form
53
Owen and Darwin The Archetype and the Ancestor
76
7
88
The First
107
Interlude
130
EXPLAINING THE ABSENCE
137
Basics of the Evolutionary Synthesis
159
Structuralist Reactions to the Synthesis
169
The Synthesis Matures
198
Recent Debates and the Continuing Tension
213
References
259
Index
275
Հեղինակային իրավունք

Այլ խմբագրություններ - View all

Common terms and phrases

Վկայակոչումներ այս գրքի մասին

Հեղինակի մասին (2005)

Ron Amundson is Professor of Philosophy, University of Hawaii, Hilo.

Բիբլիոգրաֆիական տվյալներ