The Darwinian Tradition in Context: Research Programs in Evolutionary Biology

by Richard G. Delisle (Editor)

1. Introduction.- Darwinism or a Kaleidoscope of Research Programs and Ideas?.- Part I. From a Pluralistic Darwinism to an Ever More Inclusive Darwinism.- 2. Selfish Genes and Lucky Richard Dawkins' and Stephen Jay Gould's Divergent Darwinian Agendas.- 3.The Behavioral Sciences and A Darwinian Approach.- 4. Darwinism in the 20th Productive Encounters with Saltation, Acquired Characteristics, and Development.- 5. Darwinism after the Modern Synthesis.- Human Evolution as a Theoretical Model for an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis.- Part II. Crossing the Between non-Darwinian and Darwinian.- 6. From Charles Darwin to the Evolutionary Weak and Diffused Connections Only.- 7. Major Research Traditions in 20th Century Evolutionary The Relations of Germany's Darwinism with Them.- 8. Alternatives to Darwinism in the Early Twentieth Century.- 9. The Organismal Holistic Science and Developmental Evolution in the English-Speaking World, 1915-1954.- 10. Lamarckian Research Programs in French Biology (1900-1970).- 11. Molecularizing Evolutionary Biology.- 12. Cells, Development, and Teeth Studies at the Intersection of Fields.- 13. Symbiogenesis and Cell an Anti-Darwinian Research Agenda?.- 14. Paleobiology's Uneasy Relationship with the Darwinian Stasis as Data.

364 pages, Paperback

Published January 9, 2018