In this volume, the product of decades of study and research,
the world's foremost geneticist surveys the major developments in
what is emerging as the most important single area of scientific
inquiry in the twentieth century: biological theory of evolution in
particular.
Noting that the theory of evolution in biology is more than a
century old, Dr. Dobzhansky points out that it is nevertheless only
in recent times that our knowledge of its physical basis as well as
our understanding of its dynamics has progressed greatly. Yet, he
notes, new problems have replaced the older ones at the forefront
of scientific inquiry, problems which require entirely new
approaches. It is to these manifold and exciting new questions that
the author brings a lifetime of experience.
Throughout, his goal is to create not a summary of all the
available literature, nor a professional book written only for the
scientific community, but rather a presentation of basic ideas,
accompanied by the indispensable references which would enable
interested readers to pursue the matter further. The book has been
purposely kept short to enable it to be read as a whole, and above
all, it has been written in a manner which will hold the attention
as well as inform both the general reader and the professionally
concerned scientist.
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