Unfinished Synthesis: Biological Hierarchies and Modern Evolutionary Thought

by Niles Eldredge

Book Overview

This provocative study provides a stimulating critique of contemporary evolutionary thought, analyzing 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 work argues that only genes and organisms are taken as historic "individuals" in conventional theory. Eldredge proposes that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195055748
• ISBN13: 9780195055740
• Release Date: April 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"