Milestones in the Evolving Theory of Evolution

✍ Scribed by David Wool

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 344
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book illustrates how Darwin's theory has evolved, about the development of the biological world before Darwin, and great changes that took place with the incorporation of statistics, and after Darwin's death of genetics and mathematics. The formation of ‘Modern Synthesis’, protein electrophoresis, Discovery of DNA opened new avenues for the study of evolution.

✦ Table of Contents

Dedication
Preface
Introduction
Contents
1: The Origin of Life
The First Circle
2: Early Theories: Creation, Pre-formation and Order in the Biological World
3: More Theories
The Second Circle
4: Georges Cuvier and the Theory of Catastrophes
5: Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire: The Theory of Comparative Anatomy
6: Jean Baptiste de Lamarck: The Theory of Descent
7: Charles Lyell – “The Father of Geology”
The Third Circle: Charles Darwin, his Theory, his Supporters and Adversaries
8: Charles Darwin: The Formative Years
9: Evolution of the Theory of Natural Selection
10: On the Same Track: Ideas about the History of Life before 1859
11: Alfred Russel Wallace
12: Thomas Henry Huxle
13: Louis Agassiz: Classifcation and the Plan of Nature
14: The Struggle for Existence of Darwin’s Theory
15: Darwin: The Descent of Man (1871)
16: Charles Darwin: Sexual Selection
17: Darwin in the Vegetable Kingdom
18: Heredity in the 19th Century: What did Darwin Know?
19: Ernst Haeckel: Embryology and Phylogeny in Evolution
20: August Weismann: The Theory of the Germ Plasm and the [Non]–Inheritance of Acquired Characters
21: Francis Galton: Quantitative Measurements of Heredity
22: The Biometricians: Karl Pearson
The Fourth Circle: The Theory of Evolution in the 20th Century
23: Gregor Mendel and the Origin of Genetics
24: Hugo de Vries and the Theory of Mutations
25: T.H. Morgan: Drosophila, Genetics, and Evolution
26: The Resurrection of the Inheritance of Acquired Characters: from Weismann to Lysenko
27: Genetics in Populations: An Introductory Overview
28: R.A. Fisher: The Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection
29: J.B.S. Haldane: Science in Everyday Life and Genetics in Populations
30: Sewall Wright: Chance and Evolution in Small Populations
31: Theodosius Dobzhansky
32: Ernst Mayr: The Biological Species and Speciation
33: Julian Sorell Huxley
34: Richard Goldschmidt (1878-1958): Genetics, Evolution, and Hopeful Monsters
35: E.B. Ford and H.B.D. Kettlewell: Ecological Genetics
36: Motoo Kimura and the Neutrality Hypothesis
Closing Comments
References
Author Index
Subject Index