Title: Reinventing Darwin : the great debate at the high table of evolutionary theory /
Authors: Eldredge, Niles
Publisher: Wiley,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Evolution (Biology) Philosophy
Abstract: Discusses the controversy between the geneticists, with their traditional Darwinian view of a slow but sure evolution, and the paleontologists, who favor the theory of punctuated equilibrium.
Contents: Setting the table -- The heart of the matter: adaptation and natural selection -- The great stasis debate -- Evolution in real time: puntuated equilibria and the eternal species wrangle -- High stakes at the high table: macroevolution and species sorting -- Approaching complexity: evolution in the real world -- Paradoxes in ultra-Darwinism: sex, social systems, and the reproductive imperative.