I argue that Darwinism is best described as a research tradition in which specific theories of
how natural selection acts to produce common descent and evolutionary change are …

Darwinism is defined here as an evolving research tradition based upon the concepts of
natural selection acting upon heritable variation articulated via background assumptions …

This book mainly aims to present an accurate history of the Darwinian tradition conducted
from a point of view that is both socially contextualized and conceptually reflective, and to do …

We trace the history of the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis, and of genetic Darwinism
generally, with a view to showing why, even in its current versions, it can no longer serve as …

This article reviews the seven “visions” of evolution proposed by Depew and Weber (1995,
Darwinism Evolving: Systems Dynamics and the Genealogy of Natural Selection …

The Darwinian tradition in evolutionary biology, whose most distinctive feature is the idea of
natural selection, contrasts with an alternative approach that, for lack of a better phrase, I will …

Darwin's 19th century evolutionary theory of descent with modification through natural
selection opened up a multidimensional and integrative conceptual space for biology. We …

The newest synthesis of evolutionary thought is emerging, and promises to return
evolutionary biology to Darwin's panoramic view of life. The key element is a long-standing …

Darwin's great discovery, announced in On the Origin of Species, is that the fit and diversity
of organic form are the consequence of a single process, descent with modification. 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 …