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Darwinism evolving : systems dynamics and the genealogy of natural selection / David J. Depew and Bruce H. Weber.

Title: Darwinism evolving : systems dynamics and the genealogy of natural selection / David J. Depew and Bruce H. Weber.
Author: Depew, David J., 1942-
Publication: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1995.

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xiii, 588 p. : ill.; 27 cm.

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History.

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"A Bradford book."

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [531]-564) and index.

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Contents

Introduction: Darwinism as a research tradition -- Evolution and the crisis of Neoclassical biology -- A short look at "one long argument": the origins of On the Origin of Species -- Tory biology and Whig geology: Charles Lyell and the limits of Newtonian dynamics -- The Newton of a Blade of Grass: Darwin and the political economists -- Domesticating Darwin: the British reception of On the Origin of Species -- Ontogeny and phylogeny: the ascendancy of developmentalism in later nineteenth-century evolutionary theory -- Statistics, biometry, and eugenics: Francis Galton and the New Darwinism -- Mendel, Mendelism, and the Mendelian revolution: natural selection versus genetics -- The Boltzmann of a Blade of Grass: R.A. Fisher's thermodynamic model of genetic natural selection -- Giving chance (half) a chance: Sewall Wright, Theodosius Dobzhansky, and genetic drift -- Species, speciation, and systematics in the modern synthesis -- The molecular revolution -- Expanding the synthesis: the modern systhesis responds to the molecular revolution -- Developmentalism Redivivus: evolution's unsolved mysteries -- New models of evolutionary dynamics: selection, self-organization, and complex systems -- The thermodynamics of evolution -- Natural selection, self-organization, and the future of Darwinism.

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0262041456

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^^^94016590^

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