scholarly journals Evolution of darwinism. Synthetic theory of evolutions: 1926 – 1975 years

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-56
Author(s):  
Yu. V. Vagyn
Keyword(s):  
Population Genetics ◽  
Genetic Polymorphism ◽  
Biological Species ◽  
History Of Biology ◽  
Synthetic Theory ◽  
Theory Of Evolution ◽  
Gene Drift ◽  
Species Population ◽  
History Of

The process of combining Darwinism and genetics, which entered the history of biology as a synthetic theory of evolution, is considered.Key words: synthetic theory of evolution, neo-Darwinism, the concept of a biological species, population genetics, genetic polymorphism, the theory of dominance, gene drift.

Evolution, genetics, and systematics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco J. Ayala ◽  
Camilo J. Cela-Conde
Keyword(s):  
Population Genetics ◽  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Altruistic Behavior ◽  
Synthetic Theory ◽  
Theory Of Evolution ◽  
Evolution By Natural Selection ◽  
Current Paradigm ◽  
Epigenetic Processes

This chapter starts with the general principles of the theory of evolution by natural selection advanced by Darwin and the Mendelian theory of heredity. Next comes consideration of the “new-Darwinian synthesis” or “synthetic theory,” which integrates both precedents into what has become the current paradigm of the life sciences. Molecular evolution and population genetics follow, including epigenetic processes. Next, special models of selection are considered, such as sexual selection and the models that account for altruistic behavior. After the mechanisms of speciation, the main concepts of systematics are explored, which facilitate understanding of different traits. The chapter finally explores the fundamental concepts of taxonomy and the methods from phenetics to cladistics, that makes it possible to evaluate the diversity of organisms and the methods for dating the fossil record.

Th. Dobzhansky and the development of evolutionary biology in the USSR

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 346-371
Author(s):  
Mikhail B. Konashev
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Synthetic Theory ◽  
Theory Of Evolution ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
History Of

Th. Dobzhansky played a special role in the reception and development of the “synthetic theory of evolution,” as well as in the establishment of scientific connections between Soviet and U.S. evolutionists, and first and foremost, geneticists. These connections greatly influenced the development of Soviet genetics, of evolutionary theory and evolutionary biology as a whole, and in particular the restoration of Soviet genetics in the late 1960s. A discussion of Dobzhansky’s correspondence and collaboration with colleagues in his native country, moreover, allows for an improved understanding of the complex and dramatic history of Soviet genetics and evolutionary theory. It also provides novel insights into the interactions between scientists and authorities in the Soviet Union (USSR).

scholarly journals A short history of evolutionary theory

2001 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 671-987 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edson Perreira da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Darwinian Evolution ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Evolution Theory ◽  
Synthetic Theory ◽  
Short History ◽  
Theory Of Evolution ◽  
History Of ◽  
Interpretative Model ◽  
Dialectic Materialism

The history of the Theory of Evolution has been told a number of times by historians, philosophers, professors, writers, scientists and so on. However, many of these versions differ from or even contradict one another. In this article, the history of the Theory of Evolution is retold according to a dialectical-materialistic perspective. It analyzes the historical contradictions between Darwinian evolution theory and Mendel's model, the background that led to the synthetic theory of evolution, the debate carried out by classic schools and the result of synthesis, as well as the still current debate between Neutralism and Selectionism. Finally, it also discusses the interpretative model used ("an idiosyncratic dialectic materialism"), mainly in relation with Popper's and Kuhn's models.

Missing Links in the History of Life

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 97-118
Author(s):  
Charles R. Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
Theory Of Evolution ◽  
History Of ◽  
Living Species

Ever since Darwin proposed his theory of evolution (or more correctly, theories; see Mayr, 1991) it has been assumed that intermediates now extinct once existed between living species. For some, the hunt for these so-called missing links in the fossil record became an obsession, a search for evidence thought needed to establish the veracity of evolutionary theory. Few modern paleontologists, however, search explicitly for ancestors in the fossil record because we now know that fossils can be used to chart the order of evolution regardless of whether they are directly ancestral either to extinct organisms or to those living today.

A Traveler's Guide to the History of Biology and Medicine

Kew Bulletin ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
R. Desmond ◽  
Eric T. Pengelley ◽  
Daphne M. Pengelley
Keyword(s):  
History Of Biology ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Darwin's contribution to psychiatry

2009 ◽  
Vol 195 (6) ◽  
pp. 473-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Shorter
Keyword(s):  
History Of Biology ◽  
Origin Of Species ◽  
History Of

SummaryThis November we celebrated the sesquicentennial of the Origin of Species, a landmark in the history of biology. Yet Darwin's chief contribution to psychiatry appears in The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), where he describes ‘the grief muscles’, later identified as a sign of melancholic illness.

Humboldtian plant geography after Humboldt: the link to ecology

1996 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm Nicolson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
History Of Biology ◽  
Plant Geography ◽  
Alexander Von Humboldt ◽  
Carl Linnaeus ◽  
History Of

In his classic textbook,The History of Biology, Erik Nordenskiöld suggested that there had existed, throughout the nineteenth century, not one but two distinct forms of plant geography. He designated one of these traditions of inquiry ‘floristic’ plant geography, tracing its origins back to the work of Carl Linnaeus on species and their distributions. The second form Nordenskiöld termed ‘morphological’, by which he meant that its practitioners concentrated upon the study of vegetation rather than flora. He located the origins of this tradition of inquiry within the botanical work of Alexander von Humboldt.

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