This provocative study provides a stimulating critique of
contemporary evolutionary thought, analysing the Modern Synthesis
first developed by Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ernst Mayr, and George
Gaylord Simpson. Written by an eminent evolutionary biologist (the
co-founder of the theory of punctuated equilibria), this highly
readable book argues that only genes and organisms are taken as
historic 'individuals' in conventional theory. Eldredge proposes
that species, higher taxa, and ecological entities such as
populations and communities should also be construed as individuals
- an approach yielding the ecological and genealogical hierarchies
that interact to produce evolution. This clearly stated,
controversial work will provoke much debate among evolutionary
biologists, systematicists, palaeontologists and ecologists, as
well as lay readers.
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