The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: Roots of Evo-DevoIn this book Ron Amundson examines two hundred years of scientific views on the evolution-development relationship from the perspective of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo). This 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. The book starts with a revised history of nineteenth-century evolutionary thought. It then investigates how development became irrelevant with the Evolutionary Synthesis. It concludes with an examination of the contrasts that persist between mainstream evolutionary theory and evo-devo. This book will appeal to students and professionals in the philosophy and history of science, and biology. |
Contents
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BEYOND THE ESSENTIALISM STORY | 24 |
Systematics and the Birth of the Natural System | 31 |
The Origins of Morphology the Science of Form | 53 |
Owen and Darwin The Archetype and the Ancestor | 76 |
7 | 88 |
The First | 107 |
Interlude | 130 |
EXPLAINING THE ABSENCE | 137 |
Basics of the Evolutionary Synthesis | 159 |
Structuralist Reactions to the Synthesis | 169 |
The Synthesis Matures | 198 |
Recent Debates and the Continuing Tension | 213 |
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The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: Roots of Evo-Devo Ron Amundson No preview available - 2007 |
The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: Roots of Evo-Devo Ron Amundson No preview available - 2005 |
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adaptation adaptationism adaptationist adult ancestors Archetype argument aspects bauplan body Bowler causal causes cells Chapter characters claim Cuvier Darwin Darwinian debates developmental types dichotomies differentiation discovery discussed distinction Dobzhansky early embryo embryological embryological development epigenetic Ernst Mayr Essentialism Story evo-devo evolution evolutionary biology evolutionary change evolutionary morphology Evolutionary Synthesis evolutionary theory existence explain explanatory goal fact function geneticists genotype genotype-phenotype distinction Geoffroy germ groups Haeckel heredity homologous genes homology Huxley idealism idealist important individual irrelevant limb macroevolution Mayr Mayr's MCTH mechanism Mendelian merely metaphysical modern modification molecular morphology natural selection Natural System natural theology naturalists neo-Darwinian neo-Darwinism nineteenth century ontogenetic ontogeny organisms origins Owen Owen's pattern phenotype philosophical phylogenetic phylogeny Platonic population genetics population thinking pre-Darwinian recognize refuted rejected scientific segment similarities species fixism structuralist structure taxa taxonomic teleology traits transmission genetics typological thinking typology understanding Unity of Type variation vertebrates Waddington Weismann