Unfinished Synthesis: Biological Hierarchies and Modern Evolutionary Thought. Niles Eldredge

Unfinished Synthesis: Biological Hierarchies and Modern Evolutionary Thought



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Language: English
Page: 256
ISBN: 0195055748, 9780195055740

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Eldredge reviews four seminal works of the ``modern synthesis'' of evolution ary thought, and analyzes the synthesis with a view to defining its inadequacies. The last three chapters promulgate part of the anti-reductionist theory of evolu tion, particularly as it relates to parallel hierarchies. Here, cases are built for considering as ``individuals'' entities such as communities, ecosystems, and demestraditionally regarded as mere collections of subunits. By analogy, processes in evolution are suggested to be hierarchical. Several lines of argu ment are unsatisfactory or flawed. For example, Eldredge rejects the concept that economic adaptations of organisms only exist to serve reproduction. He also incorrectly suggests that extinction events can operate above the organis mic level. But regardless of the present shortcomings of the anti-reductionist theory, this is an important book. Walter P. Coombs, Jr., Biology Dept., Western New England Coll., Spring field, Mass.
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"Interesting and provocative....A must for those with a genuine interest in the processes of evolution."--Choice


"Eldredge--the invertebrate paleontologist renowned for his role in developing the theory of punctuated equilibria and the epistemological approach to phylogenetic pattern recognition known as cladistics--now gives us...one of the more important challenges to the neo-Darwinian evolutionary synthesis....This is a must for anyone, of any persuasion, interested in evolutionary theory." --Science Books & Films


"An authoritative, well-researched, lively account of evolutionary theory and evidence for student and layman alike." --Book Trends Monthly



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