The world's most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of
explanatory force unprecedented in our time—a landmark publication, both for its historical …

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 …

This paper explores whether natural selection, a putative evolutionary mechanism, and a
main one at that, can be characterized on either of the two dominant conceptions of …

The Genesis of Natural Selection-1838: Some Further Insights Page 1 The Genesis of Natural
Selection -1838: Some Further Insights SS Schweber THE POLYMATHIC DARWIN Near the …

Natural selection has been criticized as a tautology. This would be a major problem for
evolutionary biology, if true, because tautological statements can't be falsified and, therefore …

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 …

Behavior and Ecology. Edited by Laurent Keller. Princeton (New Jersey): P7inceton
University Press. $59.50 (hardcover); $16.95 (paper). xii+ 318 p; ill.; author and subject …

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 …