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The structure of evolutionary theory
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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| Acceso en línea: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy035/2001043556.html |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Defining and revising the structure of evolutionary theory
- PART I: THE HISTORY OF DARWINIAN LOGIC AND DEBATE: The essence of Darwinism and the basis of modern orthodoxy: an exegesis of the Origin of Species
- Seeds of hierarchy
- Internalism and laws of form: pre-Darwinian alternatives to functionalism
- The fruitful facets of Galton's polyhedron; channels and saltations in post-Darwinian formalism
- Pattern and progress on the geological stage
- The modern synthesis as a limited consensus
- PART II: TOWARDS A REVISED AND EXPANDED EVOLUTIONARY THEORY: Species as individuals in the hierarchical theory of selection
- Punctuated equilibrium and the validation of macroevolutionary theory
- The integration of constraint and adaptation (structure and function) in ontogeny and phylogeny: historical constraints and the evolution of development
- The integration of constraint and adaptation (structure and function) in ontogeny and phylogeny: structural constraints, spandrels, and the centrality of exaptation in macroevolution
- Tiers of time and trials of extrapolationism, with an epilog on the interaction of general theory and contingent theory.