The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

Stephen Jay Gould

    1. Defining and Revising the Structure of Evolutionary Theory

    Part I: The History of Darwinian Logic and Debate

    2. The Essence of Darwinism and the Basis of Modern Orthodoxy: An Exegesis of the Origin of Species

    3. Seeds of Hierarchy

    4. Internalism and Laws of Form: Pre-Darwinian Alternatives to Functionalism

    5. The Fruitful Facets of Galton's Polyhedron: Channels and Saltations in Post-Darwinian Formalism

    6. Pattern and Progress on the Geological Stage

    7. The Modern Synthesis as a Limited Consensus

    Part II: Towards a Revised and Expanded Evolutionary Theory

    8. Species as Individuals in the Hierarchical Theory of Selection

    9. Punctuated Equilibrium and the Validation of Macroevolutionary Theory

    10. The Integration of Constraint and Adaptation (Structure and Function) in Ontogeny and Phylogeny: Historical Constraints and the Evolution of Development

    11. The Integration of Constraint and Adaptation (Structure and Function) in Ontogeny and Phylogeny: Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and the Centrality of Exaptation in Macroevolution

    12. Tiers of Time and Trials of Extrapolationism, With an Epilog on the Interaction of General Theory and Contingent History

    Bibliography

    Index

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Stephen Jay Gould was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University and Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at New York University. A MacArthur Prize Fellow, he received innumerable honors and awards and wrote many books, including Ontogeny and Phylogeny and Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle (both from Harvard).