The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: March 21, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1464
ISBN-13: 9780674006133
Subjects: Evolution; Science/Mathematics; Punctuated equilibrium (Evolut; Science; Study & Teaching; Life Sciences - Evolution; System Theory; Evolution (Biology); Punctuated equilibrium (Evolution)
Table of contents: pagenum: 5
label: Brief Contents; pagenum: 6
label: Expanded Contents; pagenum: 20
label: Chapter 1
title: Defining and Revising the Structure of Evolutionary Theory; pagenum: 110
label: PART I
title: The History of Darwinian Logic and Debate; pagenum: 112
label: Chapter 2
title: The Essence of Darwinism and the Basis of Modern Orthodoxy: An Exegesis of the Origin of Species; pagenum: 189
label: Chapter 3
title: Seeds of Hierarchy; pagenum: 270
label: Chapter 4
title: Internalism and Laws of Form: Pre-Darwinian Alternatives to Functionalism; pagenum: 361
label: Chapter 5
title: The Fruitful Facets of Galton's Polyhedron: Channels and Saltations in Post-Darwinian Formalism; pagenum: 486
label: Chapter 6
title: Pattern and Progress on the Geological Stage; pagenum: 522
label: Chapter 7
title: The Modern Synthesis as a Limited Consensus; pagenum: 612
label: Part II
title: Towards a Revised and Expanded  Evolutionary Theory; pagenum: 614
label: Chapter 8
title: Species as Individuals in the Hierarchical  Theory of Selection; pagenum: 764
label: Chapter 9
title: Punctuated Equilibrium and the Validation of Macroevolutionary Theory; pagenum: 1044
label: Chapter 10
title: The Integration of Constraint and Adaptation (Structure and Function) in Ontogeny and Phylogeny: Historical Constraints and the Evolution of Development; pagenum: 1198
label: Chapter 11
title: The Integration of Constraint and Adaptation (Structure and Function) in Ontogeny and Phylogeny: Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and the Centrality of Exaptation in Macroevolution; pagenum: 1315
label: Chapter 12
title: Tiers of Time and Trials of Extrapolationism, With an Epilog on the Interaction of General Theory and Contingent History; pagenum: 1363
label: Bibliography; pagenum: 1407
label: Illustration Credits; pagenum: 1412
label: Index