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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Page 4
... fossil record has produced an archive of evidence of long-extinct forms. There was no evidence of the existence of humans until what amounts to a geological moment ago. Traditional natural theology held the world to be static: God had ...
... fossil record has produced an archive of evidence of long-extinct forms. There was no evidence of the existence of humans until what amounts to a geological moment ago. Traditional natural theology held the world to be static: God had ...
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... fossils, but the fossil record indicated that whole groups of species appeared suddenly. There was simply no evidence of a succession of transitional forms. All he could do was to point to his classification of the animals and claim ...
... fossils, but the fossil record indicated that whole groups of species appeared suddenly. There was simply no evidence of a succession of transitional forms. All he could do was to point to his classification of the animals and claim ...
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... fossils in specific layers into distinct regions of the earth's crust indicated that revolutions had suddenly over ... fossil record in different regions and in different strata. This interpretation had an obvious flaw: had there been ...
... fossils in specific layers into distinct regions of the earth's crust indicated that revolutions had suddenly over ... fossil record in different regions and in different strata. This interpretation had an obvious flaw: had there been ...
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... fossils of vertebrates exhibited a unity of plan and composition: “All of them, being composed of similar organs, are merely modifications of the same being, which we call the 'vertebrate animal.'”34 Geoffroy's structuralism, in fact ...
... fossils of vertebrates exhibited a unity of plan and composition: “All of them, being composed of similar organs, are merely modifications of the same being, which we call the 'vertebrate animal.'”34 Geoffroy's structuralism, in fact ...
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... fossil record.19 During the first three decades of the nineteenth century, it became apparent that fossils followed a certain progressive order, from the simplest to the most complex forms. Some naturalists saw in this record actual ...
... fossil record.19 During the first three decades of the nineteenth century, it became apparent that fossils followed a certain progressive order, from the simplest to the most complex forms. Some naturalists saw in this record actual ...
Contents
THE CELL IN DEVELOPMENT AND HEREDITY | 73 |
GENETICS AND THE CLASSICAL SYNTHESIS | 115 |
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND ORGANISMIC COMPLEXITY | 185 |
Epilogue | 267 |
Notes | 273 |
Index | 347 |
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