Recasting natural selection: Osborn and the pluralistic view of life

D Ceccarelli - Natural selection: Revisiting its explanatory role in …, 2021 - Springer
Historians have almost overwhelmingly considered Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857–1935) an
authority of twentieth-century American science. Behind his political and institutional clout is …

The origins of theoretical developmental genetics: reinterpreting William Bateson's role in the history of evolutionary thought

C Ochoa - Natural Selection: Revisiting its Explanatory Role in …, 2021 - Springer
By considering the traditional history of evolutionary thought, William Bateson has been
portrayed as an irrational anti-Darwinist who found in Mendel's laws the basis of heredity …

Cathedrals, corals and mycelia: three analogies for the history of evolutionary biology

M Esposito - Natural Selection: Revisiting its Explanatory Role in …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract In The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, Stephen Jay Gould argued that the history
and structure of the evolutionary theory could be represented as a fossilized coral …

Inertia, Trend, and Momentum Reconsidered: GG Simpson—An Orthogeneticist?

C Ochoa - Natural selection: Revisiting its explanatory role in …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract George Gaylord Simpson, one of the architects of Modern Synthesis, was one of the
main figures of paleontology who discredited and rejected the theory of orthogenesis in his …