The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

Segue to Part Two Contemporary challenges to all three central commitments of Darwinism (the legs of the tripod in my chosen met ...

586 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY In this context, I ask readers to consider two points about the tripod of necessary sup ...

The Modern Synthesis as a Limited Consensus 587 belonged to the geologists, and students of fossils therefore received virtually ...

588 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY major lines of post-Darwinian internalist thought (orthogenesis and saltationism), and ...

The Modern Synthesis as a Limited Consensus 589 causes of evolution that either deny natural selection entirely, or demote Darwi ...

590 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY But modern forms of these critiques are now being advanced in different and helpful ver ...

The Modern Synthesis as a Limited Consensus 591 appreciation for the shaping power of mass extinction must reinstate paleontolog ...

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CHAPTER EIGHT Species as Individuals in the Hierarchical Theory of Selection The Evolutionary Definition of Individuality AN IND ...

596 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY In the context of this conscious and directed search, we should not be surprised that D ...

Species as Individuals in the Hierarchical Theory of Selection 597 formulations—and he ultimately failed, as all others had. The ...

598 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY in a larger "totality" like a beehive or ant colony with a single queen? Wilson and Sob ...

Species as Individuals in the Hierarchical Theory of Selection 599 (1982), Dawkins (1976, 1982), Eldredge (1985a), Fisher (1958) ...

600 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY of selection" problem. In his initial article, Ghiselin (1974b, p. 543) dimly perceived ...

Species as Individuals in the Hierarchical Theory of Selection 601 overemphasize (see Gould and Lloyd, 1999)—functional cohesive ...

602 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY that a proper theory of macroevolution, the central concern of this book, rests upon su ...

Species as Individuals in the Hierarchical Theory of Selection 603 an electronic record of the entire Pavo cristatus genome, and ...

604 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY "hold together" long and discretely enough so that the differential proliferation and s ...

Species as Individuals in the Hierarchical Theory of Selection 605 than by wholesale transformation, no matter how gradual the t ...

606 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY nature, then all the aforementioned problems cannot be avoided and apply in force. But ...