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 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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Recent developments in evolutionary biology rekindled the debate on whether evolutionary
theory needs a rethink. Has the path opened by Darwin been abandoned? Or is a new …