The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

Ontogenetic Drive: The Analogy of Lamarckism

Reproductive Drive: Directional Speciation as an Important

Summary Comments on the Strengths of Species Selection

• Features of Darwinian Logic


• • Apologia Pro Vita Sua
  
  
  • A Time to Keep
  
  
  • A Personal Odyssey
  
  
  
  


• • Epitomes for a Long Development
  
  
  • Levels of Potential Originality
  
  
  • An Abstract of One Long Argument
  
  
  • Modern Orthodoxy: An Exegesis of the Origin of Species Chapter 2: The Essence of Darwinism and the Basis of
  
  
  
  


• • A Revolution in the Small


• • Darwin as a Historical Methodologist
  
  
  • One Long Argument
  
  
  • The Problem of History
  
  
  • A Fourfold Continuum of Methods for the Inference of History
  
  
  
  


• • Darwin as a Philosophical Revolutionary
  
  
  • The Causes of Nature's Harmony
    
    
    • Darwin and William Paley
    
    
    • Darwin and Adam Smith
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • The First Theme: The Organism as the Agent of Selection
    
    
    • The Second Theme: Natural Selection as a Creative Force
      
      
      • The Requirements for Variation
        
        
        • Copious
        
        
        • Small
        
        
        • Undirected
        
        
        
        
      
      
      • Gradualism
      
      
      • The Adaptationist Program
      
      
      
      
    
    
    • Environment as Enabler of Change The Third Theme: The Uniformitarian Need to Extrapolate:
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • • Judgments of Importance
  
  
  
  


• Chapter 3: Seeds of Hierarchy
  
  
  • Two-Factor Theories • Lamarck and the Birth of Modern Evolutionism in
    
    
    • The Myths of Lamarck
    
    
    • Lamarck as a Source
    
    
    • Lamarck's Two-Factor Theory: Sources for the Two Parts
      
      
      • The First Set: Environment and Adaptation
      
      
      • The Second Set: Progress and Taxonomy
      
      
      • Distinctness of the Two Sets
      
      
      
      
    
    
    • Progress and Deviation Lamarck's Two-Factor Theory: The Hierarchy of
    
    
    • Antinomies of the Two-Factor Theory
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• • An Interlude on Darwin's Reaction


• • No Allmacht without Hierarchy: Weissman on Germinal Selection
  
  
  • The Allmacht of Selection
  
  
  • Weismann's Argument on Lamarck and the Allmacht of Selection
  
  
  • Germinal Selection The Problem of Degeneration and Weismann's Impetus for
  
  
  • Some Antecedents to Hierarchy in German Evolutionary Thought
    
    
    • Haeckel's Descriptive Hierarchy in Levels of Organization
    
    
    • Roux's Theory of Intracorporeal Struggle
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Germinal Selection as a Helpmate to Personal Selection
  
  
  • Germinal Selection as a Full Theory of Hierarchy
  
  
  • Darwin on the Principle of Divergence • Hints of Hierarchy in Supraorganismal Selection:
    
    
    • Divergence and the Completion of Darwin's System
    
    
    • The Genesis of Divergence
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Divergence as a Consequence of Natural Selection
  
  
  • Species Selection The Failure of Darwin's Argument and the Need for
    
    
    • The Calculus of Individual Success
    
    
    • The Causes of Trends
    
    
    • Species Selection Based on Propensity for Extinction
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Postscript: Solution to the Problem of the "Delicate Arrangement"
  
  
  
  


• • Coda
  
  
  • Pre-Darwinian Alternatives to Functionalism Chapter 4: Internalism and Laws of Form:
  
  
  
  


• • Prologue: Darwin's Fateful Decision


• • Two Ways to Glorify God in Nature
  
  
  • Details of Design William Paley and British Functionalism: Praising God in the
  
  
  • Grandeur of Taxonomic Order Louis Agassiz and Continental Formalism: Praising God in the
  
  
  • An Epilog on the Dichotomy
  
  
  • The Pre-Darwinian Debate • Unity of Plan as the Strongest Version of Formalism:
    
    
    • Mehr Licht on Goethe's Leaf
    
    
    • Geoffroy and Cuvier
      
      
      • Cuvier and Conditions of Existence
      
      
      • Geoffroy's Formalist Vision
      
      
      • The Debate of 1830: Foreplay and Aftermath
      
      
      
      
    
    
    • The Archetype of Vertebrates Richard Owen and English Formalism:
      
      
      • No Formalism Please, We're British
      
      
      • The Vertebrate Archetype: Constraint and Nonadaptation
      
      
      • Owen and Darwin
      
      
      
      
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• • Darwin's Strong but Limited Interest in Structural Constraint
  
  
  • Darwin's Debt to Both Poles of the Dichotomy
  
  
  • Darwin on Correlation of Parts
  
  
  • The "Quite Subordinate Position" of Constraint to Selection
  
  
  • Channels and Saltations in Post-Darwinian Formalism Chapter 5: The Fruitful Facets of Galton's Polyhedron:
  
  
  
  


• • Galton's Polyhedron
  
  
  • the Marginalization of Darwinism • Orthogenesis as a Theory of Channels and One-Way Streets:
    
    
    • Misconceptions and Relative Frequencies
    
    
    • Theodor Eimer and the Ohnmacht of Selection
    
    
    • World of Mollusks Alpheus Hyatt: An Orthogenetic Hard Line from the
    
    
    • World of Pigeons CO. Whitman: An Orthogenetic Dove in Darwin's
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • for Pushing Darwinism to a Causal Periphery • Saltation as a Theory of Internal Impetus: A Second Formalist Strategy
    
    
    • William Bateson: The Documentation of Inherent Discontinuity
    
    
    • Hugo de Vries: A Most Reluctant Non-Darwinian
      
      
      • Dousing the Great Party of
      
      
      • The (Not So Contradictory) Sources of the Mutation Theory
      
      
      • The Mutation Theory: Origin and Central Tenets
      
      
      • Darwinism and the Mutation Theory
        
        
        • Confusing Rhetoric and the Personal Factor
        
        
        • de Vries' System The Logic of Darwinism and Its Different Place in
        
        
        
        
      
      
      • De Vries on Macroevolution
      
      
      
      
    
    
    • Embodiment of All that Pure Darwinism Must Oppose Richard Goldschmidt's Appropriate Role as a Formalist
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Chapter 6: Pattern and Progress on the Geological Stage
  
  
  
  


• • Darwin and the Fruits of Biotic Competition
  
  
  • A Geological License for Progress
  
  
  • The Predominance of Biotic Competition and Its Sequelae
  
  
  
  


• • Uniformity on the Geological Stage
  
  
  • Lyell's Victory in Fact and Rhetoric
  
  
  • Catastrophism as Good Science: Cuvier's Essay
  
  
  • Darwin's Geological Need and Kelvin's Odious Spectre
    
    
    • A Question of Time (Too Little Geology)
    
    
    • A Question of Direction (Too Much Geology)
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Chapter 7: The Modern Synthesis as a Limited Consensus
  
  
  
  


• • Why Synthesis?


• • Synthesis as Restriction
  
  
  • The Initial Goal of Rejecting Old Alternatives
    
    
    • Species as Individuals
    
    
    • Species as Interactors
    
    
    • Species Selection as Potent
    
    
    • The Clade-Individual
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• • The Grand Analogy: A Speciational Basis for Macroevolution
  
  
  • Presentation of the Chart for Macroevolutionary Distinctiveness
  
  
  • The Particulars of Macroevolutionary Explanation
  
  
  • The Structural Basis
  
  
  • Criteria for Individuality
  
  
  • Contrasting Modalities of Change: The Basic Categories
  
  
  • and Anagenesis
  
  
  • Species Selection and Irreducible Macroevolutionary Mode Separate from
  
  
  • with Directional Speciation Species Selection, Wright's Rule, and the Power of Interaction
  
  
  • Phenomena in Microevolution Species Level Drifts as More Powerful than the Analogous
  
  
  • The Scaling of External and Internal Environments
  
  
  • of Change and its Interaction with Other Macroevolutionary Causes
  
  
  • Macroevolutionary Theory Chapter 9: Punctuated Equilibrium and the Validation of
  
  
  
  


• • What Every Paleontologist Knows
  
  
  • An Introductory Example
  
  
  • Testimonials to Common Knowledge
  
  
  • Darwinian Solutions and Paradoxes
    
    
    • The Paradox of Insulation from Disproof
    
    
    • The Paradox of Stymied Practice
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• • The Primary Claims of Punctuated Equilibrium
  
  
  • Data and Definitions
  
  
  • Microevolutionary Links
  
  
  • Macroevolutionary Implications
    
    
    • Tempo and the Significance of Stasis
    
    
    • Mode and the Speciational Foundation of Macroevolution