The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

The Modern Synthesis as a Limited Consensus 525 a source for all evolution; we can trace full continuity from studies in the lab ...

526 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY of selection among semi-isolated demes occupying different peaks of an adaptive landsca ...

The Modern Synthesis as a Limited Consensus 527 invisibility (see Chapter 10, pp. 1175-1178 for the modern relevance and refutat ...

528 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY adaptive system of mammals, which are ecologically and biologically segregated, as a gr ...

The Modern Synthesis as a Limited Consensus 529 would become relatively unimportant and would have minor value to the study of e ...

530 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY single process. Although he favored selection leading to adaptation as a primary theme, ...

The Modern Synthesis as a Limited Consensus 531 the Princeton conference on genetics, paleontology and evolution—Simpson (1949, ...

532 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY then the role played by Mayr and other field naturalists in building the synthesis beco ...

The Modern Synthesis as a Limited Consensus 533 the flow of nature. (We name species, under this view, only because our poor min ...

534 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY the focus of the first phase of the Synthesis (see pp. 503-508). Thus, Mayr explicitly ...

The Modern Synthesis as a Limited Consensus 535 Most geographic variation in clines: It is difficult to see why the gradual dec ...

536 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY gene flow, rendered any population ripe for speciation: "The big gaps which we find bet ...

The Modern Synthesis as a Limited Consensus 537 doubts about adaptation in his chapters on variation and change within populatio ...

538 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY body proportions to natural selection. The former belief that proportions are determine ...

The Modern Synthesis as a Limited Consensus 539 exerts a continuous selection pressure on the localized demes of every species a ...

540 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY Subjects that might have seemed challenging or exceptional now achieve a place within t ...

The Modern Synthesis as a Limited Consensus 541 processes: 1) the maintenance and improvement of adaptedness, and 2) the origin ...

542 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY own empirical work increased his belief in the power of selection. In 1937, he tended t ...

The Modern Synthesis as a Limited Consensus 543 More strongly selectionist models would be favored by biologists who modelled th ...

544 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY then, following this book's focal argument that the minimal commitments of Darwinian lo ...