Abstract The Modern Synthesis (or “Neo-Darwinism”), which arose out of the reconciliation
of Darwin's theory of natural selection and Mendel's research on genetics, remains the …

The neo-Darwinian synthesis that resulted from the integration of Mendelian genetics into
evolutionary theory has dominated evolutionary biology for the last 30 to 40 years, due …

This is the first of a two-part essay on the history of debates concerning the creativity of
natural selection, from Darwin through the evolutionary synthesis and up to the present …

This is a first-hand account of the discussions going on between biologists of different
persuasions. On the one hand are the ultradarwinians, who emphasize the supremacy of the …

This is the second of a two-part essay on the history of debates concerning the creativity of
natural selection, from Darwin through the evolutionary synthesis and up to the present. In …

This is a sequel to a recent article arguing that the standard “just-so-story” of the history of
Darwinism through the so-called Modern Synthesis has obfuscated the central persistent …

The nineteenth-century Darwinian theory of the evolution of species by means of natural
selection appears, at first glance, to be quite remote from the subjects of decline and …

Stephen Jay Gould's last book and magnum opus is first and mainly a theoretical revision.
The revision is of Darwinism, in both its original and Modern Synthesis formulations, of what …

Neo-Darwinism began with Weiss-man's rejection of Lamarckian inheri-tance and matured
in the" modern syn-thesis," from the 1930's to the early 1950's. A simplistic, false, but remark …

This essay presents the misinterpretation of the scientific contribution and natural selection
theory of Charles Darwin. It notes that Darwin's theory has remained widely contested citing …