Genesis: The Evolution of BiologyGenesis: The Evolution of Biology presents a history of the past two centuries of biology, suitable for use in courses, but of interest more broadly to evolutionary biologists, geneticists, and biomedical scientists, as well as general readers interested in the history of science. The book covers the early evolutionary biologists-Lamarck, Cuvier, Darwin and Wallace through Mayr and the neodarwinian synthesis, in much the same way as other histories of evolution have done, bringing in also the social implications, the struggles with our religious understanding, and the interweaving of genetics into evolutionary theory. What is novel about Sapp's account is a real integration of the cytological tradition, from Schwann, Boveri, and the other early cell biologists and embryologists, and the coverage of symbiosis, microbial evolutionary phylogenies, and the new understanding of the diversification of life coming from comparative analyses of complete microbial genomes. The book is a history of theories about evolution, genes and organisms from Lamarck and Darwin to the present day. This is the first book on the general history of evolutionary biology to include the history of research and theories about symbiosis in evolution, and first to include research on microbial evolution which were excluded from the classical neo-Darwinian synthesis. Bacterial evolution, and symbiosis in evolution are also excluded from virtually every book on the history of biology. |
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Contents
Evolution and Revolution | 3 |
Two Worldviews | 4 |
Revolution to Evolution | 5 |
Lamarckian Myths | 6 |
Simple to Complex | 8 |
Disconnecting the Unity of Life | 11 |
The CuvierGeoflroy Debate | 13 |
The Origin | 16 |
Genotype and Phenotype | 134 |
Disciplinary Design | 135 |
Biology out of Balance | 138 |
Are Genes Real? | 140 |
Darwinian Renaissance | 143 |
Merging Mendelism | 144 |
The Importance of Sex | 146 |
Population Genetics | 147 |
When Making Other Plans | 17 |
Darwins Bible | 18 |
The Beagle Voyage | 20 |
Natural Selection and Natural Theology | 22 |
Wallaces Manuscript | 24 |
Concepts of the Origin | 26 |
Darwins Champions | 31 |
Natural Theology and Agnosticism | 33 |
Archetype and Idealism | 35 |
Ontogeny and Phylogeny | 36 |
Materialism for Mysticism | 40 |
Darwinism and Sociopolitical Thought | 43 |
Laissezfaire | 44 |
Social Darwinism Exported | 46 |
War and Racism | 47 |
Darwinism on the Left | 48 |
Was Darwin a Social Darwinist? | 49 |
Social Theory in Evolution | 50 |
Darwin and Malthus | 52 |
Mutualism | 55 |
Between Individuals | 57 |
Between Species | 58 |
Roots in Natural Theology | 61 |
Dissent from Darwin | 63 |
Is the Earth Old Enough? | 64 |
What Is a Species? | 65 |
Speciation and Isolation | 66 |
Holes in the Record | 67 |
NeoLamarckism | 68 |
Orthogenesis | 69 |
Saltationism | 71 |
THE CELL IN DEVELOPMENT AND HEREDITY | 73 |
The Myth of the Cell Theory | 75 |
Cells from Cells | 77 |
More than Meets the Eye | 78 |
Vitalism Materialism and Spontaneous Generation | 80 |
The Body Politic | 82 |
The Dawn of Protistology | 85 |
A Cell Is Not a Cell | 86 |
Whats in a Word | 87 |
Organisms within Organisms | 90 |
Weismannism | 91 |
Evolving Embryology | 95 |
Technical Virtuosity | 96 |
The Organism as a Whole | 98 |
Epigenesis and Preformation | 100 |
The Egg | 103 |
The Body Plan in the Egg | 104 |
Maternal Inheritance | 106 |
Cellular Differentiation | 109 |
Cytoplasmic Evolution | 112 |
GENETICS AND THE CLASSICAL SYNTHESIS | 115 |
Mendel Palimpsest | 117 |
Mendels Laws | 118 |
Neglect and Rediscovery | 119 |
Making a Discoverer | 121 |
Why Multiple Meanings? | 122 |
Geneticists versus Statisticians | 124 |
Mendel Made Darwinian | 126 |
Emerging Genetics | 130 |
Random Drift and Nonadaptive Change | 149 |
The Species Problem | 151 |
Microevolution as Macroevolution | 152 |
Lessons of Synthesis | 154 |
Genes Germs and Enzymes | 157 |
The Garrod Tale | 158 |
Early GeneEnzyme Associations | 160 |
OneEnzyme Hypothesis | 161 |
Domesticating Microhes | 163 |
The Chosen Few | 164 |
The Rockefeller Foundation | 168 |
Genetic Heresy and the Cold War | 171 |
NonDarwinian Development | 173 |
Plasmon to Plasmagenes | 174 |
The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics | 176 |
University Politics | 179 |
Morgans Smile | 181 |
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND ORGANISMIC COMPLEXITY | 185 |
Conceiving a Master Molecule | 187 |
DNA or Protein? | 188 |
Transformation and Transduction | 189 |
Chromatography | 191 |
XRay Crystallography | 192 |
Digital DNA | 194 |
Transcription and Translation | 196 |
Turning Genes On and Off | 197 |
Classical Doctrines of Molecular Biology | 198 |
Beyond the Genome | 201 |
Complexity and the Human Genome | 203 |
A Genetic Plan? | 205 |
Confronting Old Dogmas | 206 |
Cell Architecture and Spatial Information | 207 |
Field Heredity | 211 |
Epinucleic Inheritance | 214 |
Molecular Evolution and Microbial Phylogeny | 217 |
Precambrian Explosion | 218 |
Molecular Clocks | 220 |
The Origin of the Code | 221 |
A Code for Classification | 224 |
A Trilogy of Life | 225 |
Dissension and Disaffection | 228 |
Lateral Gene Transfer | 230 |
Symbiomics | 234 |
Developmental Symbiosis | 235 |
Symbiosis Silhouette | 236 |
Why It Has Been Difficult to Imagine | 240 |
Toward a Unified Theory | 243 |
Symbiogenetic Renaissance | 245 |
Macroevolutionary Change | 247 |
The Evolution of Relationships | 252 |
The Individual and the Group | 253 |
Kin Selection | 255 |
The Lessons of Sociobiology | 257 |
About JustSo Stories | 258 |
Symbiotic Ties | 261 |
Epilogue | 267 |
Notes | 273 |
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