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The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: Roots of Evo-Devo (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology)by Ronald Amundson
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Ron Amundson examines two hundred years of scientific views on the evolution-development relationship from the perspective of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo). This new perspective challenges several popular views about the history of evolutionary thought by claiming that many earlier authors had made history come out right for the Evolutionary Synthesis. The book starts with a revised history of nineteenth-century evolutionary thought. It then investigates how development became irrelevant with the Evolutionary Synthesis. It concludes with an examination of the contrasts that persist between mainstream evolutionary theory and evo-devo. This book will appeal to students and professionals in the philosophy and history of science, and biology. Book News Annotation:Recently, the idea that there is a significant connection between the
development of an individual (ontogeny) and the evolution of a
lineage (phylogeny) has begun to gain acceptance, resulting in the
establishment of evolutionary developmental biology. Amundson
(philosophy, U. of Hawaii at Hilo) consciously adopts the assumptions
of this field in his revisionist history of the scientific
relationship between thinking about development and thinking about
evolution. By adopting this perspective, he comes to significantly
different conclusions about 19th century evolutionary morphology than
traditional narratives that accepted the assumptions of the
Evolutionary Synthesis of the 1930s and 1940s. Following this
discussion of the problems engendered by this "Synthesis
Historiography," he offers a critical account of how it developed in
the first place.
Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Review:"This is revisionist history at its best. The death of Ernst Mayr, the last surviving 14father12 of the modern synthesis, makes the publication of this important book all the more timely. Highly recommended." CHOICE Synopsis:Examines 200 years of scientific views on the evolution-development relationship from the perspective of evolutionary developmental biology. Synopsis:Examines two hundred years of scientific views on the evolution-development relationship from the perspective of evo-devo. About the AuthorRon Amundson is Professor of Philosophy, University of Hawaii at Hilo. Table of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. Darwin's Century: Beyond the Essentialism Story: 2. Systematics and the birth of the natural system; 3. The origins of morphology, the science of form; 4. Owen and Darwin, the archetype and the ancestor; 5. Evolutionary morphology: the first generation of evolutionists; 6. Interlude; Part II. Neo-Darwin's Century: Explaining the Absence and the Reappearance of Development in Evolutionary Thought: 7. The invention of heredity; 8. Basics of the evolutionary synthesis; 9. Structuralist reactions to the synthesis; 10. The synthesis matures; 11. Recent debates and the continuing tension.
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