The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

oclasm versus Darwinian traditions) of nonadaptationist themes rooted in structural and historical constraint. First, I stood un ...

critique of adaptationism, had acted cynically, and even anti-scientifically, in opposing biological theories that we knew to be ...

the classical texts of late 18th and early 19th century catastrophism in their original languages—and I could find no claim for ...

that I would ever have understood the motivations and consistencies—also the idiosyncrasies of time, place and manner—behind the ...

eral theory and its broad results (pattern vs. pageant in the terms of this text), rather than contingency and the explanation o ...

the worthy apex of an extensive pyramid. Scientists fight and squabble as all folks do (and I have scarcely avoided a substantia ...

of time, rather than trying to explain all phylogenetic mechanics by uniformitarian extrapolation from microevolutionary process ...

On the third branch of scope, my contribution cannot claim much novelty, if only because I have not worked professionally in thi ...

(germinal selection in his terms), if only in the context of modern reductionistic breakdowns of Darwinism to selection among "s ...

good introduction to punctuated equilibrium (Chapter 9, pp. 745-749). The largely unknown paradox of Lankester's original defini ...

a major subregion of Cerion as consequences of allometric correlations in growth (Gould, 1984b). I tried (and utterly failed) to ...

Chapter 2, and the development of the totality. Now, and most sheepishly, I add two more, for a fractal total of five—the listed ...

pageant of life's phylogeny on Earth—and such a claim for nontheoretical independence of macroevolution generates no dispute, ev ...

work. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory occupies a much broader territory than my first lengthy technical book of an earlier ...

also conveying important and general principles in their cascading implications. I vowed that I would try to encompass the struc ...

ophy might be regarded as a footnote to Plato). Evolutionary biology possesses the great good fortune to embrace such a figure—C ...

Darwin famously characterized the Origin as "one long argument" without explicitly stating "for what?" Assumptions about the fo ...

The first theme of agency: Darwin's commitment to the organismal level as the effectively exclusive locus of natural selection ...

scope, or the extrapolatability of microevolution to explain all patterns in geological time—and is therefore the aspect of grad ...

previous explanatory schemes, not as pure additions to a former state of acknowledged ignorance. Lamarck's evolutionary theory, ...