Descended from Darwin

Insights into the History of Evolutionary Studies, 1900-1970 (Transactions Vol. 99, Part 1)

Joe Cain, Michael Ruse

• Publisher: The American Philosophical Society Press
• Year: 2009
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9780871692795
• Subtopic: Evolution
• Index: Biological Sciences

This vol. has its origins in a conference, held October 22-23, 2004, at the Amer. Philosophical Society (APS) Library, Phila. The main focus was on evolutionary studies in America before, during, and after the famous "synthesis" period of the 1930s and 1940s. The synthesis period has been the focus of substantial new research and important new thinking. This vol. brings together 15 specialists to explore these developments and to press further. Questions shaping these essays focus on the following broad themes: Continuity and breaks across generations; Emerging narratives for the period; New research opportunities at the APS; New ideas from the research front; Placing evolutionists in the broader context of biology; and Future directions. Also includes a thoughtful intro. by Michael Ruse.

Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• PART I CONTINUITY AND BREAKS ACROSS GENERATIONS
• CHAPTER I THE SO-CALLED ECLIPSE OF DARWINISM
• CHAPTER 2 THE VIEW-POINT OF A NATURALIST" AMERICAN FIELD ZOOLOGISTS AND THE EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS, 1900-1945
• CHAPTER 3 J. B. S. HALDANE, HOLISM, AND SYNTHESIS IN EVOLUTION
• PART 2 EMERGING NARRATIVES AND BROADER THEMES
• CHAPTER 4 BIOSYSTEMATICS AND THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES EDGAR ANDERSON, W. H. CAMP, AND THE EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS
• CHAPTER 5 DESCENDED FROM DARWIN? GEORGE GAYLORD SIMPSON, MORRIS GOODMAN, AND PRIMATE SYSTEMATICS
• CHAPTER 6 ERNST MAYR AND THE "BIOLOGY OF BIRDS"
• CHAPTER 7 HOMEOTIC MUTANTS AND THE ASSIMILATION OF DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS INTO THE EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS, 1915-1952
• PART 3 NEW IDEAS AND NEW DIRECTIONS
• CHAPTER 8 "THE EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL FROM THE NATURALIST'S POINT OF VIEW" BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION AT THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1928 - 1954
• CHAPTER 9 THE "DELAYED SYNTHESIS" PALEOBIOLOGY IN THE 1970s
• CHAPTER 10 NATURAL SELECTION IN THE FIELD: INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE, ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY, AND THE EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS, 1914-1951
• PART 4 EVOLUTIONARY THEORY MEETS PRACTICE
• CHAPTER 11 PAPILIO DARDANUS: THE NATURAL ANIMAL FROM THE EXPERIMENTALIST'S POINT OF VIEW
• CHAPTER 12 H.B.D. KETTLEWELL'S RESEARCH, 1934-1961: THE INFLUENCE OF J.W. HESLOP HARRISON*
• CHAPTER 13 CONCEPTS OF DRIFT AND SELECTION IN " THE GREAT SNAIL DEBATE" OF THE 1950s AND EARLY 1960s
• CHAPTER 14 REVISITING THE FISHER-WRIGHT CONTROVERSY
• CHAPTER 15 SHIFTING BALANCE AND BALANCING SELECTION: A GROUP SELECTIONIST'S INTERPRETATION OF WRIGHT AND DOBZHANSKY
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX