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 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 book contests the general view that natural selection constitutes the explanatory core of
evolutionary biology. It invites the reader to consider an alternative view which favors a more …

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 …

No other scientific theory has had as tremendous an impact on our understanding of the
world as Darwin's theory as outlined in his Origin of Species, yet from the very beginning the …

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Society for the Study of Evolution, I look back
at the so-called “evolutionary synthesis,” to which many of the Society's founders and …

According to a classical narrative, early geneticists, failing to see how Mendelism provides
the missing pieces of Darwin's theory, rejected gradual changes and advocated an …

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 …

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 …

In the 1940s, the 'modern synthesis'(MS) of Darwinism and genetics cast genetic mutation
and recombination as the source of variability from which environmental events naturally …