An insider's provocative account of one of the most contentious debates in science today
When Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould, two of the world's leading evolutionary …

Many of the major advances in evolutionary biology have grown out of synthesis between
disparate disciplines. Indeed, synthesis was present right from the beginning. Darwin was a …

Describing the role of systematics in the evolutionary synthesis is difficult because of the
enormous diversity in the views of the systematists. On the one hand were those …

Natural selection is the centerpiece of Darwin's great book, and is prominent in its title: On
the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races …

Darwin in his On the Origin of species made it clear that evolutionary change depends on
the combined action of two different causes, the first being the origin of genetically based …

As Byerly and Michod note right away, there is a difficulty in understanding the theory of
natural selection. I think that anyone who is acquainted with Darwin's formulation of the …

Evolutionary theory has never had a stronger scientific foundation than it does today. In a
short review I hope to portray the deep commitment of today's biologists to Darwinian natural …

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 …

" Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution." So wrote the late
geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky, perhaps the central figure in the development of the" …

The nineteenth-century Darwinian theory of the evolution of species by means of natural
selection appears, at first glance, to be quite remote from the subjects of decline and …