The Modern Synthesis, according to Gould (1980, p. 119),“has broken down on both its
fundamental claims: extrapolationism (gradual allelic substitution for all evolutionary …

Selection, l is first and foremost a work in empirical biological science. We must never lose
sight of this fact. Drawing on findings and theories of fellow geologists and biologists, from …

Huxley coined the phrase, the “evolutionary synthesis” to refer to the acceptance by a vast
majority of biologists in the mid-20th Century of a “synthetic” view of evolution. According to …

Objections to natural selection.................... 173 The definition of natural selection................
175 Advances since Darwin.......................... 176 Miscellaneous implications........................ 179 …

The current theory of biological evolution (the “Synthetic Theory” or “Modern Synthesis”) may
be traced to Theodosius Dobzhansky's Genetics and the Origin of Species, published in …

Darwin's theory is still to be regarded as the best starting point in evolutionary thinking. Its
hard core-and the hard core of any Darwinian tradition-is the theory of natural selection, and …

So much has been written about Darwin, his theory of evolution and its supporting argument,
that it hardly seems worthwhile to consider yet another analysis. But on the standard …

THROUGHOUT ITS CAREER the Darwinian theory of evolution has been oddly subject to a
set of objections which have refused to be laid to rest in spite of the best efforts of its …

The prevalent reading of Darwin's achievements today is adaptationist. Darwin, so the usual
story goes, succeeded in providing a naturalistic explanation of the fact that organisms are …

Science is supposed to be international, but, as the historical papers in this anthology show,
the development of evolutionary biology in English-and in German-speaking countries was …