- Preface, 1998
- Preface to the Original Edition
- Prologue: Some Thoughts on the History of the Evolutionary Synthesis [Ernst Mayr]
- I. Different Biological Disciplines and the Synthesis
- 1. Genetics
- Introduction [William B. Provine]
- Theoretical Population Genetics in the Evolutionary Synthesis [Richard C. Lewontin]
- 2. Cytology
- Introduction [William B. Provine]
- The Evolution of Genetic Systems: Contributions of Cytology to Evolutionary Theory [C. D. Darlington]
- Cytology in the T. H. Morgan School [Alexander Weinstein]
- Cytogenetics and the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis [Hampton L. Carson]
- 3. Embryology
- Introduction [William B. Provine]
- Embryology and the Modern Synthesis in Evolutionary Theory [Viktor Hamburger]
- The Modern Evolutionary Synthesis and the Biogenetic Law [Frederick B. Churchill]
- 4. Systematics
- The Role of Systematics in the Evolutionary Synthesis [Ernst Mayr]
- 5. Botany
- Introduction [Ernst Mayr]
- Botany and the Synthetic Theory of Evolution [G. Ledyard Stebbins]
- 6. Paleontology
- Introduction [Ernst Mayr]
- G. G. Simpson, Paleontology, and the Modern Synthesis [Stephen Jay Gould]
- 7. Morphology
- Introduction [Ernst Mayr]
- Morphology in the Evolutionary Synthesis [William Coleman]
- The Failure of Morphology to Assimilate Darwinism [Michael T. Ghiselin]
- Severtsov and Schmalhausen: Russian Morphology and the Evolutionary Synthesis [Mark B. Adams]
- 1. Genetics
- II. The Synthesis in Different Countries
- 8. Soviet Union
- The Birth of the Genetic Theory of Evolution in the Soviet Union in the 1920s [Theodosius Dobzhansky]
- Sergei Chetverikov, the Kol’tsov Institute, and the Evolutionary Synthesis [Mark B. Adams]
- 9. Germany
- Introduction [Ernst Mayr]
- Historical Development of the Present Synthetic Neo-Darwinism in Germany [Bernhard Rensch]
- Evolutionary Theory in Germany: A Comment [Viktor Hamburger]
- 10. France
- Introduction [Ernst Mayr]
- Evolutionary Biology in France at the Time of the Evolutionary Synthesis [Ernest Boesiger]
- The Arrival of Neo-Darwinism in France [Ernst Mayr]
- A Second Glance at Evolutionary Biology in France [Camille Limoges]
- 11. England
- Introduction [William B. Provine]
- Some Recollections Pertaining to the Evolutionary Synthesis [E. B. Ford]
- Lamarckism in Britain and the United States [Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr.]
- A Note on W. L. Tower’s Leptinotarsa Work [Alexander Weinstein]
- 12. United States
- Introduction [William B. Provine]
- The Evolutionary Synthesis: Morgan and Natural Selection Revisited [Garland E. Allen]
- Hypotheses That Blur and Grow [Hampton L. Carson]
- 8. Soviet Union
- III. Final Considerations
- 13. Interpretive Issues in the Evolutionary Synthesis
- Introduction [William B. Provine]
- The Meaning of the Evolutionary Synthesis [Dudley Shapere]
- 14. Epilogue [William B. Provine]
- 13. Interpretive Issues in the Evolutionary Synthesis
- Biographical Essays
- How I Became a Darwinian [Ernst Mayr]
- Curt Stern [Ernst Mayr]
- J. B. S. Haldane, R. A. Fisher, and William Bateson [C. D. Darlington]
- Morgan and the Theory of Natural Selection [Alexander Weinstein]
- Morgan and His School in the 1930s [Theodosius Dobzhansky]
- G. G. Simpson [Ernst Mayr]
- Contributors
- Conference Participants
- Index
The Evolutionary Synthesis
Perspectives on the Unification of Biology, With a New Preface
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Publication Date: 02/15/1998
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