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Darwinism's Struggle for Survival: Heredity and the Hypothesis of Natural Selection » (1st Edition)

Authors: Jean Gayon, Matthew Cobb
ISBN-13: 9780521039673, ISBN-10: 0521039673
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: August 2007
Edition: 1st Edition

A rich and wide-ranging philosophical interpretation of the history of theoretical Darwinism.

	List of illustrations
	Preface to the English edition
	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	The Darwinian hypothesis	17
1	Wallace and Darwin: a disagreement and its meaning	19
2	The ontology of selection	60
3	Jenkin's objections, Darwin's dilemma	85
Pt. 2	Selection faced with the challenge of heredity: sixty years of principled crisis	103
4	Galton and the concept of heredity	105
5	Post-Darwinian views of selection and regression	147
6	The strategy of indirect corroboration: the case of mimicry	178
7	The search for direct proof: biometry	197
8	Establishing the possibility of natural selection: the confrontation of Darwinism and Mendelism	253
Pt. 3	The genetic theory of selection	319
9	The place of selection in theoretical population genetics	321
10	The empirical and the formal	355
	Conclusion	397
	Notes	408
	Bibliography	470
	Index	504