John Tyler Bonner makes a new attack on an old problem: the question of how progressive
increase in the size and complexity of animals and plants has occurred." How is it," he …

Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975) was a key author of the Synthetic Theory of
Evolution, also known as the Modern Synthesis of Evolutionary Theory, which embodies a …

The concept of 'natural selection', as proposed in The Origin of Species (published in 1859),
refers to the better known of Charles Darwin's two distinct theories of evolution. Darwin's …

Abstract The “German Darwin” Ernst Haeckel was very influential not only in Germany but in
non-German-speaking countries as well. He was a key figure during the “first Darwinian …

The literature on evolutionary systems (eg Csanyi, 1989; Goonatilake, 1991; Laszlo, 1987,
1994) is unclear about the role of natural selection. Evolutionary systems is a much more …

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 …

The Modern Synthesis, according to Gould (1980, p. 119),“has broken down on both its
fundamental claims: extrapolationism (gradual allelic substitution for all evolutionary …

7. If no individuals of the new type can productively interbreed with any individuals of the
originating population,“speciation,” the smallest step of evolutionary significance, will have …

A term like Darwinism is bound to change in the course of time.,... and to try to turn the clock
back is not likely to be successful.... I am quite sure that everybody will continue to define …

On the Origin of Species (1), one of the most important books ever written. The two great
themes of The Origin are descent, with modification, of diverse species from common …