Natural Selection: Revisiting its Explanatory Role in Evolutionary Biology

Table of Contents

[1] Introduction: In Search of a New Paradigm for the Development of Evolutionary Biology Richard G. Delisle richard.delisle@uleth.ca 

Part I Crossing Perspectives about Evolution: Historians versus Biologists

[2] Cathedrals, Corals and Mycelia: Three Analogies for the History of Evolutionary Biology Maurizio Esposito; maurizio.esposito@usach.cl 

Part II Different Views of Charles Darwin

[3] Guiding a Train of Discoveries: Charles Darwin, Charles Daubeny, and the Reception of Natural Selection, 1859-1865 Richard Bellon; bellonr@msu.edu 

[4] Natural Selection as a Mere Auxiliary Hypothesis (sensu stricto I. Lakatos) in Charles Darwin's Origin of Species Richard G. Delisle; richard.delisle@uleth.ca

[5] Natural Selection in Ernst Haeckel's Legacy Georgy S. Levit and Uwe Hossfeld; georg.levit@uni-jena.de; uwe.hossfeld@uni-jena.de 

Part III Rethinking a So-Called Intermediary Period

[6] The Origins of Theoretical Developmental Genetics: Reinterpreting William Bateson's Role in the History of Evolutionary Thought Carlos Ochoa; carlos008a@ciencias.unam.mx

 [7] Recasting Natural Selection: Osborn and the Pluralistic View of Life David Ceccarelli; dave.ceccarelli@gmail.com 

Part IV Other Evolutionary Syntheses

[8] Little Evolution, BIG Evolution: Rethinking the History of Darwinism, Population Genetics, and the "Synthesis" Mark B. Adams; madams@sas.upenn.edu

[9] When Panpsychism Met Monism: Why Did the Philosopher Theodor Ziehen (1862-1950) Become a Crucial Figure for the Evolutionary Biologist Bernhard Rensch? Georgy S. Levit and Uwe Hossfeld; georgelevit@gmx.net

[10] Inertia, Trend, and Momentum Reconsidered: G. G. Simpson, an Orthogeneticist? Carlos Ochoa; carlos008a@ciencias.unam.mx 

[11] The Concept of Natural Selection in Theodosius Dobzhansky. Its Development and Interpretation Jitse M. van der Meer; jmvdm@redeemer.ca 

Part V New Lights on Recent Developments

[12] What's Natural About Natural Selection? Jeffrey H. Schwartz; jhs@pitt.edu 

[13] Natural Selection, Morphoprocess and a Logical Field of Evolutionary Concepts A.I. Granovitch; a.granovich@spbu.ru 

[14] Natural Selection as Agent of Evolutionary Change: A View from Paleoanthropology Ian Tattersall; iant@amnh.org 

[15] Darwinism Without Selection? A Lesson from Cultural Evolutionary Theory Lorenzo Baravalle; baravalle@yahoo.it 

Part VI Teaching Evolution

[16] Beyond Survival of the Fittest - A Look at Students' Misconceptions about Natural Selection and Evolutionary Theory Elizabeth Marie Watts; elizabeth.watts@uni-jena.de