The Major Metaphors of Evolution by Daniel R Brooks
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The Major Metaphors of Evolution

The Major Metaphors of Evolution


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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Context
Chapter 2. A Talking BookAbstract2.1. We are a Fearful Species2.1.1. The Complexity Paradox2.2. We are a Story-telling Species2.2.1. A Story within a Story2.3. We are a Dreaming Species2.4. SummaryReferences
Chapter 3. Setting the StageAbstract3.1. 1859: The Origin Appears3.1.1. The Nature of the Organism3.1.2. The Nature of the Organism and Darwin's Necessary Misfit3.1.3. Natural Selection Emerges from Darwin's Necessary Misfit and the Natureof the Conditions3.1.4. What Happens if the Conditions Change?3.1.5. Natural Selection as a Blunt Instrument: Survival of the Adequate orSurvival of the Fittest Collective3.2. Darwinian Evolution: The Law of the Conditions of Existence3.3. Two Powerful Visual Metaphors3.3.1. The Tree of Life3.3.2. The Entangled Bank3.4. What was Wrong with Darwinism?3.4.1. Naturalism3.4.2. Modernism3.4.3. Romanticism3.5. Organized Resistance3.5.1. The Geographers3.5.2. The Orthogeneticists3.5.3. The Neo-Lamarckians3.5.4. The Neo-Darwinians and the Rise of "Survival of the Fittest"3.6 SummaryReferences
Chapter 4. Neo-Darwinism, Expansion and Consolidation (1900-1980)4.1. Low Hanging Fruit: The Geographers4.1.1. Speciation by Reinforcement4.1.2. Peripatric Speciation plus Reinforcement4.1.3. Changing the Nature of Species4.1.4. Yes, but4.2. The Big Enchilada: Pan-adaptationism4.2.1. Mathematics4.2.2. Yes, but4.3. Co-opting Orthogenetic Adaptationism4.4. Act 2: The Hardened Synthesis (1959-1980)4.4.1. Absorbing the Final Holdout: Co-opting Coevolution4.5. Reinforcing the Cornerstones4.5.1. Speciation4.5.2. Species4.5.3. Adaptationism and the Hardened Synthesis4.6. The Hardened Synthesis and Ecology: The Rise of Evolutionary Ecology4.6.1. Geography as a Proxy for History4.6.2. Geography as a Means of Eliminating the Confounding Effects of History4.7. The Hardened Synthesis and Ethology: Behavioral Ecology Emerges4.8. Yeah, but4.8.1. Genetic Drift and Shifting Balance4.8.2. Epigenetic Landscapes4.9. SummaryReferences
Chapter 5. Criticism, Resistance, a Glimmer of HopeAbstract5.1. The Return of History5.1.1. The Phylogenetics Revolution5.1.2. Speciation5.1.3. Species5.1.4. The Orthogeneticists Return: Co-speciation5.1.5. Adaptationism Questioned5.1.6. The Return of History to Comparative Biology5.2. Evolution meets Complex Systems Analysis5.2.1. A Complex Systems View of the Nature of the Organism5.2.2. A Complex Systems View of Microevolution and Macroevolution5.2.3. Niches and Niche Construction5.3. Extending the Hardened Synthesis5.3.1. Renewed Interest in Galtonian Comparative Biology5.3.2. Evolutionary Ecology5.4. Why does the Hardened Synthesis Still Exist, and is even being Extended?5.5. Back to the Future5.5.1. Eldredge and Salthe (1984)5.5.2. Brooks and Wiley (1986, 1988)5.5.3. Maynard Smith and Szathmary (1995)5.6. SummaryReferences
Chapter 6. Buying TimeAbstract6.1. Becoming Alive: From Non-life to Life6.2. Staying Alive: The First Rule of Life6.3. Being Evo


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  • ISBN-13: 9783030520885
  • Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Darwinism Then and Now
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 3030520889
  • Publisher Date: 30 Aug 2021
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 292
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 462 gr


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