Darwinism's Struggle for Survival

In this philosophical interpretation of the history of theoretical Darwinism, Jean Gayon examines the different forms taken by the hypothesis of natural selection in the nineteenth century and the major difficulties which it encountered, and shows how these difficulties were overcome during the seventy years which followed the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species. He concludes by analysing the major features of the genetic theory of natural selection, as it developed from 1920 to...
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In this philosophical interpretation of the history of theoretical Darwinism, Jean Gayon examines the different forms taken by the hypothesis of natural selection in the nineteenth century and the major difficulties which it encountered, and shows how these difficulties were overcome during the seventy years which followed the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species. He concludes by analysing the major features of the genetic theory of natural selection, as it developed from 1920 to 1960. This rich and wide-ranging study will appeal to philosophers and historians of science and to evolutionary biologists.