Ron Amundson

The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

Ron Amundson examines two hundred years of scientific views on the evolution-development relationship from the perspective of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo). This new perspective challenges several popular views about the history of evolutionary thought by claiming that many earlier authors had made history come out right for the Evolutionary Synthesis.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9780521806992
• ISBN-10: 0521806992
• Artikelnr.: 14716082

Autorenporträt

Ron Amundson is Professor of Philosophy, University of Hawaii, Hilo.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; Part I. Darwin's Century: Beyond the Essentialism Story: 2. Systematics and the birth of the natural system; 3. The origins of morphology, the science of form; 4. Owen and Darwin, the archetype and the ancestor; 5. Evolutionary morphology: the first generation of evolutionists; 6. Interlude; Part II. Neo-Darwin's Century: Explaining the Absence and the Reappearance of Development in Evolutionary Thought: 7. The invention of heredity; 8. Basics of the evolutionary synthesis; 9. Structuralist reactions to the synthesis; 10. The synthesis matures; 11. Recent debates and the continuing tension.

Rezensionen

'This is revisionist history at its best. The death of Ernst Mayr, the last surviving father of the modern synthesis, makes the publication of this important book all the more timely. Highly recommended.' Choice