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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812900703321

Autore

Eldredge Niles

Titolo

Unfinished synthesis : biological hierarchies and modern evolutionary thought / / Niles Eldredge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1985

©1985

ISBN

0-19-755997-2

1-280-76216-0

9786610762163

0-19-536513-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

575

Soggetti

Evolution (Biology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1985.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Chapter 1 Approaching Complexity: Thinking About Evolution; Chapter 2 Genes and the Evolutionary Synthesis; Chapter 3 Systematics, Paleontology, and the Modern Synthesis; Chapter 4 The Structure and Content of the Modern Synthesis; Chapter 5 Toward Hierarchy: Trends and Tensions in Evolutionary Theory; Chapter 6 The Evolutionary Hierarchies; Chapter 7 Hierarchic Interactions: The Evolutionary Process; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Written by an eminent evolutionary biologist (the co-founder of the theory of punctuated equilibria), this provocative study provides a stimulating critique of contemporary evolutionary thought, analysing the modern synthesis first developed by Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ernst Mayr and George Gaylord Simpson.