Choosing Selection
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Choosing Selection

The Revival of Natural Selection in Anglo-American Evolutionary Biology, 1930-1970 Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 99, Part 3)

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Choosing Selection

The Revival of Natural Selection in Anglo-American Evolutionary Biology, 1930-1970 Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 99, Part 3)

About this book

Describes the hypothesis that Darwin's "natural selection," reformulated by R.A. Fisher, J.B.S. Haldane, and S. Wright in the light of Mendelian genetics, is the exclusive mechanism for biological evolution. During the 1930s, alternatives such as Lamarchism, macromutations, and orthogenesis were rejected in favor of natural selection acting on small mutations, but there were disagreements about the role of random genetic drift in evolution. By the 1950s, research by T. Dobzhansky, E.B. Ford, and others persuaded leading evolutionists that natural selection was so powerful that drift was unimportant. This conclusion was accepted by most; however, some biology textbooks and popular articles mentioned drift in the late 1960s.

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Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. Prologue
  3. 1. Introduction
  4. 2. Fisher: A New Language for Evolutionary Research
  5. 3. Wright: Random Genetic Drift, a Concept Out of Control
  6. 4. Haldane: A Mathematical-Philosophical Biologist Weighs in
  7. 5. Early Reception of the Fisher-Haldane-Wright Theory
  8. 6. Dobzhansky: The Faraday of Biology?
  9. 7. Evidence for Natural Selection before 1941
  10. 8. Huxley: A New Synthesis Is Proclaimed
  11. 9. Mayr: Systematics and the Founder Principle
  12. 10. Simpson: No Straight and Narrow Path for Paleontology
  13. 11. Stebbins: Plants Are Also Selected
  14. 12. Chromosome Inversions in Drosophila
  15. 13. Ford: Unlucky Blood Groups
  16. 14. Resistance to Antibiotics
  17. 15. Two Great Debates: Snails and Tiger Moths
  18. 16. Dunkers and Drift
  19. 17. Gould: Why Did the Synthesis Harden? The Changing Views of Dobzhansky and Wright
  20. 18. Why Did the Synthesis Harden? The Views of Other Founders and Leaders
  21. 19. The Peppered Moth
  22. 20. The Triumph of Natural Selection?
  23. 21. Is Evolutionary Theory Scientific?
  24. 22. Context and Conclusions
  25. Acknowledgments
  26. Tables
  27. Bibliography
  28. Index