Preface to the Paperback Edition
Preface
Introduction: Darwinism as a Research Tradition
Darwin's Darwinism
Evolution and the Crisis of Neoclassical Biology
A Short Look at "One Long Argument": The Origins of On the Origin of Species
Tory Biology and Whig Geology: Charles Lyell and the Limits of Newtonian Dynamics
The Newton of a Blade of Grass: Charles Darwin and the Political Economists
Domesticating Darwinism: The British Reception of On the Origin of Species
Reading Guide to Part I
Genetic Darwinism and the Probability Revolution
Ontogeny and Phylogeny: The Ascendancy of Developmentalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Evolutionary...
Statistics, Biometry, and Eugenics: Francis Galton and the New Darwinism
Mendel, Mendelism, and the Mendelian Revolution: Natural Selection versus Genetics
The Boltzmann of a Blade of Grass: R. A. Fisher's Thermodynamic Model of Genetic Natural Selectio...
Giving Chance (Half) a Chance: Sewall Wright
Species, Speciation, and Systematics in the Modern Synthesis
Reading Guide to Part II
Molecular Biology, Complex Dynamics, and the Future of Darwinism
The Molecular Revolution
Expanding the Synthesis: The Modern Synthesis Responds to the Molecular Revolution
Developmentalism Redivivus: Evolution's Unsolved Mysteries
New Models of Evolutionary Dynamics: Selection,
Self-Organization, and Complex Systems
The Thermodynamics of Evolution
Natural Selection, Self-Organization, and the Future of Darwinism
Reading Guide to Part III
Notes
References
Index
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