Milestones in the Evolving Theory of Evolution

Dedication
Preface
Introduction
Contents
1: The Origin of Life
The First Circle
	2: Early Theories: Creation, Pre-formation and Order in the Biological World
	3: More Theories
The Second Circle
	4: Georges Cuvier and the Theory of Catastrophes
	5: Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire: The Theory of Comparative Anatomy
	6: Jean Baptiste de Lamarck: The Theory of Descent
	7: Charles Lyell – “The Father of Geology”
The Third Circle: Charles Darwin, his Theory, his Supporters and Adversaries
	8: Charles Darwin: The Formative Years
	9: Evolution of the Theory of Natural Selection
	10: On the Same Track: Ideas about the History of Life before 1859
	11: Alfred Russel Wallace
	12: Thomas Henry Huxle
	13: Louis Agassiz: Classifcation and the Plan of Nature
	14: The Struggle for Existence of Darwin’s Theory
	15: Darwin: The Descent of Man (1871)
	16: Charles Darwin: Sexual Selection
	17: Darwin in the Vegetable Kingdom
	18: Heredity in the 19th Century: What did Darwin Know?
	19: Ernst Haeckel: Embryology and Phylogeny in Evolution
	20: August Weismann: The Theory of the Germ Plasm and the [Non]–Inheritance of Acquired Characters
	21: Francis Galton: Quantitative Measurements of Heredity
	22: The Biometricians: Karl Pearson
The Fourth Circle: The Theory of Evolution in the 20th Century
	23: Gregor Mendel and the Origin of Genetics
	24: Hugo de Vries and the Theory of Mutations
	25: T.H. Morgan: Drosophila, Genetics, and Evolution
	26: The Resurrection of the Inheritance of Acquired Characters: from Weismann to Lysenko
	27: Genetics in Populations: An Introductory Overview
	28: R.A. Fisher: The Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection
	29: J.B.S. Haldane: Science in Everyday Life and Genetics in Populations
	30: Sewall Wright: Chance and Evolution in Small Populations
	31: Theodosius Dobzhansky
	32: Ernst Mayr: The Biological Species and Speciation
	33: Julian Sorell Huxley
	34: Richard Goldschmidt (1878-1958): Genetics, Evolution, and Hopeful Monsters
	35: E.B. Ford and H.B.D. Kettlewell: Ecological Genetics
	36: Motoo Kimura and the Neutrality Hypothesis
Closing Comments
References
Author Index
Subject Index