Proceedings of a conference held October 22-23, 2004, in Philadelphia in honor of Frederick H. Burkhardt. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The so-called eclipse of Darwinism / Mark A. Largent -- "The viewpoint of a naturalist": American field zoologists and the evolutionary synthesis, 1900-1945 / Juan Ilerbaig -- J.B.S. Haldane, holism, and synthesis in evolution / Andy Hammond -- Biosystematics and the origin of species: Edgar Anderson, W.H. Camp, and the evolutionary synthesis / Kim Kleinman -- Descended from Darwin? George Gaylord Simpson, Morris Goodman, and primate systematics / Joel B. Hagen -- Ernst Mayr and the "biology of birds" / Joe Cain -- Homeotic mutants and the assimilation of developmental genetics into the evolutionary synthesis, 1915-1952 / Gregory K. Davis, Michael R. Dietrich, David K. Jacobs -- "The experimental animal from the naturalist's point of view": behavior and evolution at the American Museum of Natural History, 1928-1954 / Erika Lorraine Milan -- The "delayed synthesis": paleobiology in the 1970s / David Sepkoski -- Natural selection in the field: insecticide resistance, economic entomology, and the evolutionary synthesis, 1914-1951 / John S. Ceccatti -- Papilio dardanus: the natural animal from the experimentalist's point of view / Frederick R. Davis -- H.B.D. Kettlewell's research, 1934-1961: the influence of J.W. Heslop Harrison / David Wyss Rudge -- Concepts of drift and selection in "the great snail debate" of the 1950s and early 1960s / Roberta L. Millstein -- Revisiting the Fisher-Wright controversy / Robert A. Skipper, Jr. -- Shifting balance and balancing selection: a group selectionist's interpretation of Wright and Dobzhansky / Mark E. Borrello.
Series:
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge ; v. 99, pt. 1
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