Philosophy of Biology
Haldane and the Emergence of Modern Evolutionary Theory 65 such as saltationism and orthogenesis (that is, cause [c]) were more ...
66 Sahotra Sarkar Having thus integrated the experimental results of genetics into the framework of evolution, Chapter IV begins ...
Haldane and the Emergence of Modern Evolutionary Theory 67 Theory”: “we cannot regard mutation as a cause likely by itself to ca ...
68 Sahotra Sarkar a general account of evolution: (i) discontinuous changes (for instance through hybridization); and (ii) the m ...
Haldane and the Emergence of Modern Evolutionary Theory 69 This means that the number of recessive alleles (a) will increase if ...
70 Sahotra Sarkar Though Wright did not write a book during this period, at the end of his long paper from 1931, he presented hi ...
Haldane and the Emergence of Modern Evolutionary Theory 71 context that could be effectively modeled. What was surprising — and ...
72 Sahotra Sarkar information on the conditions found in nature, but only show in what circum- stances different factors can be ...
Haldane and the Emergence of Modern Evolutionary Theory 73 In the dispute between Fisher and Wright, Provine sided with Wright. ...
74 Sahotra Sarkar However, the critique of theoretical population genetics that became most influ- ential in the 1960’s, and con ...
Haldane and the Emergence of Modern Evolutionary Theory 75 mathematical treatment, numerous simplifying assumptions had to be ma ...
76 Sahotra Sarkar avid Darwinians — the mutationists were by no means dominant. Moreover, dur- ing Mayr’s “classical period”, mu ...
Haldane and the Emergence of Modern Evolutionary Theory 77 that some genes which seriously lower human fitness are only kept in ...
78 Sahotra Sarkar this was what he had predicted in 1924 when it was not taken seriously. “If biologists had a little more respe ...
Haldane and the Emergence of Modern Evolutionary Theory 79 to describe this replacement in his chapter... on the unity of the ge ...
80 Sahotra Sarkar Intentional or not, it was a remarkable exercise in self-service. How credible is Waddington and Mayr’s critiq ...
Haldane and the Emergence of Modern Evolutionary Theory 81 of the Chetverikov school, of Dobzhansky, and of Mayr himself were im ...
82 Sahotra Sarkar what Leigh found insightful and “light-hearted” (p. xx). Though Leigh admitted that “we need a system of sorts ...
Haldane and the Emergence of Modern Evolutionary Theory 83 [Fisher, 1922]R. A. Fisher. On the dominance ratio.Proceedings of the ...
84 Sahotra Sarkar [Haldane, 1957]J. B. S. Haldane. The cost of natural selection.Journal of Genetics, 55: 51–524, 1957. [Hardy, ...
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