Reinventing Darwin : the great debate at the high table of evolutionary theory
Discusses the controversy between the geneticists, with their traditional Darwinian view of a slow but sure evolution, and the paleontologists, who favor the theory of punctuated equilibrium
xi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780471303015, 0471303011
30975979
Setting the table : The roots of the matter: did the evolutionary high table evolve? ; Confluence and consensus? ; The table is set and the guests arrive
The heart of the matter: adaptation and natural selection : Ultra-Darwinism, natural selection, and adaptation ; Dr. Pangloss ; Cladistics: a search for rigor in evolutionary history ; Coda: the limits of adaptationism
The great stasis debate : Evolutionary pictures in the mind’s eye ; The great stasis debate ; What causes stasis? ; Sewall Wright: populations, species, and stasis ; Ultra-Darwinians confront stasis ; The red queen: personification of gradualism
Evolution in real time: punctuated equilibria and the eternal species wrangle : The early storms over punctuated equilibria ; Back to biology: punctuated equilibria and evolutionary change ; The eternal species wrangle ; More high table flap over species ; Speciation and adaptive evolutionary change ; Species selection, species sorting, and the geometry of evolutionary change
High stakes at the high table: macroevolution and species sorting : A punctuated paradox: evolutionary trends and the origin of species selection/sorting ; Mass confusion at the high table: species selection, species sorting, and group selection ; Vrba’s “Effect Hypothesis” ; Extinction and speciation: the ecological nexus ; Mass extinctions and evolutionary response: grand scale adaptation ; Species sorting in the modern world: latitudinal diversity gradients
Approaching complexity: evolution in the real world : Approaching complex systems ; Large-scale biological systems ; Genealogical and ecological systems: tradition and innovation at the high table ; Where the twain meet: organisms, populations, and natural selection
Paradoxes in ultra-Darwinism: sex, social systems, and the reproductive imperative : The genesis and structure of sociobiology ; Why sex?
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