AuthorGould, Stephen Jay
TitleThe structure of evolutionary theory / Stephen Jay Gould
Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002
Descript xxii, 1433 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

CONTENT

Ch.1. Defining and revising the structure of evolutionary theory -- Pts.I. History of darwinian logic and debate -- Ch.2. The essence of darwinism and the basis of modern orthodoxy: an exegesis of the origin of species -- Ch.3. Seeds of hierarchy -- Ch.4.Internalism and laws of form: pre-darwinian alternatives to functionalism -- Ch.5. The fruitful facets of galton's polyhedron: channels and saltations in post-darwinian formalism -- Ch.6. Pattern and progress on the geological stage -- Ch.7. The modern synthesis as a limited consensus -- Ch.8. Pts.II. Towards a revised and expanded evolutionary theory of selection -- Ch.9. Punctuated equilibrium and the validation of macroevolutionary theory -- Ch.10. The integration of constraint and adaptation (structure and function) in ontogeny and phylogeny: historical constraints and the evolution of development -- Ch.11. The The integration of constraint and adaptation (structure and function) in ontogeny and phylogeny: structural constraints, spandrels, and the centrality of exaptation in macroevolution -- Ch.12. Tiers of time and trials of extrapolationism, with an epilog on the interaction of general theory and contingent history


SUBJECT

  1. Evolution (Biology)
  2. Punctuated equilibrium (Evolution)

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Science LibraryQH366.2 S927g 2002 CHECK SHELVES