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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: structure of evolutionary theory
  name:
    name part: Gould, Stephen Jay
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxii, 1433 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
  abstract: "With attention to detail, Stephen Jay Gould first describes the content and discusses the history and origins of the three core commitments of classical Darwinism: that natural selection works on organisms, not genes or species; that it is almost exclusively the mechanism of adaptive evolutionary change; and that these changes are incremental, not drastic. Next, he examines the three critiques that currently challenge this classic Darwinian edifice: that selection operates on multiple levels, from the gene to the group; that evolution proceeds by a variety of mechanisms, not just natural selection; and that causes operating at broader scales, including catastrophes, have figured prominently in the course of evolution. Then, in a stunning tour de force that will likely stimulate discussion and debate for decades, Gould proposes his own system for integrating these classical commitments and contemporary critiques into a new structure of evolutionary thought." "In 2001 the Library of Congress named Stephen Jay Gould one of America's eighty-three Living Legends - people who embody the "quintessentially American ideal of individual creativity, conviction, dedication, and exuberance." Each of these qualities finds full expression in this peerless work, the likes of which the scientific world has not seen - and may not see again - for well over a century."--Jacket.
  table of contents: Defining and revising the structure of evolutionary theory : Theories need both essences and histories ; The structure of evolutionary theory: revising the three central features of Darwinian logic ; Apologia pro vita sua : A time to keep ; A personal odyssey. Epitomes for a long development : Levels of potential originality ; An abstract of one long argument -- The history of Darwinian logic and debate : The essence of Darwinism and the basis of modern orthodoxy: an exegesis of the Origin of Species : A revolution in the small ; Darwin as a historical methodologist : One long argument ; The problem of history ; A fourfold continuum of methods for the inference of history. Darwin as a philosophical revolutionary : The causes of nature's harmony : Darwin and William Paley ; Darwin and Adam Smith. The first theme: the organism as the agent of selection ; The second theme: natural selection as a creative force : The requirements for variation : Copious ; Small ; Undirected. Gradualism ; The adaptationist program. The third theme: the uniformitarian need to extrapolate: environment as enabler of change. Judgments of importance -- Seeds of hierarchy : Lamarck and the birth of modern evolutionism in two-factor theories : The myths of Lamarck ; Lamarck as a source ; Lamarck's two-factor theory: sources for the two parts : The first set: environment and adaptation ; The second set: progress and taxonomy ; Distinctness of the two sets. Lamarck's two-factor theory: the hierarchy of progress and deviation ; Antinomies of the two-factor theory. An interlude on Darwin's reaction ; No allmacht without hierarchy: Weissman on germinal selection : The allmacht of selection ; Weismann's argument on Lamarck and the allmacht of selection ; The problem of degeneration of Weismann's impetus for germinal selection ; Some antecedents to hierarchy in German evolutionary thought : Haeckel's descriptive hierarchy in levels of organization ; Roux's theory of intracorporeal struggle. Germinal s…
  table of contents: Pattern and progress on the geological stage : Darwin and the fruits of biotic competition : A geological license for progress ; The predominance of biotic competition and its sequelae. Uniformity on the geological stage : Lyell's victory in fact and rhetoric ; Catastrophism as good science: Cuvier's Essay ; Darwin's geological need and Kelvin's odious spectre : A question of time (too little geology) ; A question of direction (too much geology) -- The modern synthesis as a limited consensus : Why synthesis? ; Synthesis as restriction : The initial goal of rejecting old alternatives ; R. A. Fisher and the Darwinian core ; J. B. S. Haldane and the initial pluralism of the synthesis ; J. S. Huxley: pluralism of the type. Synthesis as hardening : The later goal of exalting selection's power ; Increasing emphasis on selection and adaptation between the first (1937) and last (1951) edition of Dobzhansky's Genetics and the Origin of Species ; The shift in G. G. Simpson's explanation of "quantum evolution" from drift and nonadaptation (1944) to the embodiment of strict adaptation (1953) ; Mayr at the inception (1942) and codification (1963): shifting from the "genetic consistency" to the "adaptationist" paradigm ; Why hardening?. Hardening on the other two legs of the Darwinian tripod : Levels of selection ; Extrapolation into geological time. From overstressed doubt to overextended certainty : A tale of two centennials ; All quiet on the textbook front : Adaptation and natural selection ; Reduction and trivialization of macroevolution -- Segue to part II -- Towards a revised and expanded evolutionary theory : Species as individuals in the hierarchal theory of selection : The evolutionary definition of individuality : An individualistic prolegomenon ; The meaning of individuality and the expansion of the Darwinian research program : Criteria for vernacular individuality ; Criteria for evolutionary individuality. The evolutionary definition of selective agency and the falla…
  table of contents: Punctuated equilibrium and the validation of macroevolutionary theory : What every paleontologist knows : An introductory example ; Testimonials to common knowledge ; Darwinian solutions and paradoxes : The paradox of insulation from disproof ; The paradox of stymied practice. The primary claims of punctuated equilibrium : Data and definitions ; Microevolutionary links ; Macroevolutionary implications : Tempo and the significance of stasis ; Mode and the speciational foundation of macroevolution. The scientific debate on punctuated equilibrium: critiques and responses : Critiques based on the definability of paleontological species : Empirical affirmation ; Reasons for a potential systematic underestimation of biospecies by paleospecies ; Reasons for a potential systematic overestimation of biospecies by paleospecies ; Reasons why an observed punctuational pattern might not represent speciation. Critiques based on denying events of speciation as the primary locus of change ; Critiques based on supposed failures of empirical results to affirm predictions of punctuated equilibrium : Claims for empirical refutation by cases : Phenotypes ; Genotypes. Empirical tests of conformity with models. Sources of data for testing punctuated equilibrium : Preamble ; The equilibrium in punctuated equilibrium: quantitatively documented patterns of stasis in unbranched segments of lineages ; The punctuations of punctuated equilibrium: tempo and mode in the origin of paleospecies : The inference of cladogenesis by the criterion of ancestral survival ; The "dissection" of punctuations to infer both existence and modality : Time ; Geography ; Morphometric mode. Proper and adequate test of relative frequencies: the strong empirical validation of punctuated equilibrium : The indispensability of data on relative frequencies ; Relative frequencies for higher taxa in entire biotas ; Relative frequencies for entire clades ; Causal clues from differential patterns of relative frequencies. The …
  table of contents: Deep homology and pervasive parallelism: historical constraint as the primary gatekeeper and guardian of morphospace : A historical and conceptual analysis of the underappreciated importance of parallelism for evolutionary theory : A context for excitement ; A terminological excursus on the meaning of parallelism : The nine fateful little words of E. Ray Lankester ; The terminological origin and debate about the meaning and utility of parallelism. A symphony in four movements on the role of historical constraint in evolution: towards the harmonious rebalancing of form and function in evolutionary theory : Movement one, statement: deep homology across phyla: Mayr's functional certainty and Geoffroy's structural vindication : Deep homology, archetypal theories, and historical constraint ; Mehr licht (more light) on Goethe's angiosperm archetype ; Hoxology and Geoffroy's first archetypal theory of segmental homology : An epitome and capsule history of hoxology ; Vertebrate homologs in structure and action ; Segmental homologies of arthropods and vertebrates: Geoffroy's vindication : Rediscovering the vertebrate rhombomeres ; More extensive homologies throughout the developing somites ; Some caveats and tentative conclusions. Geoffrey's second archetypal theory of dorso-ventral inversion in the common bilaterian groundplan. Movement two, elaboration: parallelism of underlying generators: deep homology builds positive channels of constraint : Parallelism all the way down: shining a light and feeding the walk : Parallelism in the large: pax-6 and the homology of developmental pathways in homoplastic eyes of several phyla : Data and discovery ; Theoretical issues ; A question of priority. Parallelism in the small: the origin of crustacean feeding organs. Pharaonic bricks and Corinthian columns. Movement three, scherzo: does evolutionary change often proceed saltation down channels of historical constraint? ; Movement four, recapitulation and summary: early establishment of…
  note: Stephen Jay Gould.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 1344-1387) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Evolution (Biology)
  subject:
    topic: Punctuated equilibrium (Evolution)
  subject:
    topic: Adaptation (Biology)
  subject:
    topic: Natural selection
  subject:
    topic: Life
    topic: Origin
  subject:
    topic: Biological Evolution
  subject:
    topic: Adaptation, Biological
  subject:
    topic: Origin of Life
  subject:
    topic: Selection, Genetic
  subject:
    topic: Évolution (Biologie)
  subject:
    topic: Théorie des équilibres ponctués (Évolution)
  subject:
    topic: Adaptation (Biologie)
  subject:
    topic: Sélection naturelle
  subject:
    topic: Vie
    topic: Origines
  subject:
    topic: evolution
  subject:
    topic: Natural selection
  subject:
    topic: Adaptation (Biology)
  subject:
    topic: Evolution (Biology)
  subject:
    topic: Punctuated equilibrium (Evolution)
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionstheorie
  subject:
    topic: Evolutietheorie
  subject:
    topic: Onderbroken evenwicht
  subject:
    topic: EVOLUÇÃO HUMANA (TEORIA)
  subject:
    topic: Evolution (Biology)
  subject:
    topic: Punctuated equilibrium (Evolution)
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionstheorie
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  classification: MR 5800
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  classification: CH 30
  identifier: 0674006135
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