Sewall Wright And Evolutionary Biology
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Author |
: William B. Provine |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 566 |
Release |
: 1989-04-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226684733 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226684734 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sewall Wright and Evolutionary Biology by : William B. Provine
"Provine's thorough and thoroughly admirable examination of Wright's life and influence, which is accompanied by a very useful collection of Wright's papers on evolution, is the best we have for any recent figure in evolutionary biology."—Joe Felsenstein, Nature "In Sewall Wright and Evolutionary Biology . . . Provine has produced an intellectual biography which serves to chart in considerable detail both the life and work of one man and the history of evolutionary theory in the middle half of this century. Provine is admirably suited to his task. . . . The resulting book is clearly a labour of love which will be of great interest to those who have a mature interest in the history of evolutionary theory."-John Durant, ;ITimes Higher Education Supplement;X
Author |
: Robert Evan Sloan |
Publisher |
: Lulu.com |
Total Pages |
: 128 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781906267025 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1906267022 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sewall Wright Taught Me: Evolution by : Robert Evan Sloan
While a master's student at the University of Chicago in 1951-1952, Robert Sloan attended Sewall Wright's lecture courses. He made copious notes, which provide a detailed record of Wright's teaching. This book reprints those notes.
Author |
: Robert Evan Sloan |
Publisher |
: Lulu.com |
Total Pages |
: 82 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781906267049 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1906267049 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sewall Wright Taught Me by : Robert Evan Sloan
While a master's student at the University of Chicago in 1951-1952, Robert Sloan attended Sewall Wright's lecture courses. He made copious notes, which provide a detailed record of Wright's teaching. This book reprints those notes.
Author |
: Sewall Wright |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 519 |
Release |
: 1984-06-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226910390 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226910393 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Evolution and the Genetics of Populations, Volume 2 by : Sewall Wright
These volumes discuss evolutionary biology through the lense of population genetics.
Author |
: Sewall Wright |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 520 |
Release |
: 1969 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226910504 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226910505 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Evolution and the Genetics of Populations, Volume 2 by : Sewall Wright
"Wright's views about population genetics and evolution are so fundamental and so comprehensive that every serious student must examine these books firsthand. . . . Publication of this treatise is a major event in evolutionary biology."-Daniel L. Hartl, BioScience
Author |
: Sewall Wright |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 479 |
Release |
: 1984-06-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226910383 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226910385 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Evolution and the Genetics of Populations, Volume 1 by : Sewall Wright
These volumes discuss evolutionary biology through the lense of population genetics.
Author |
: J. Arvid Ågren |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2021-07-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198862260 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198862261 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Gene's-Eye View of Evolution by : J. Arvid Ågren
"To many evolutionary biologists, the central challenge of their discipline is to explain adaptation, the appearance of design in the living world. With the theory of evolution by natural selection, Charles Darwin elegantly showed how a purely mechanistic process can achieve this striking feature of nature. Since then, the way many biologists have thought about evolution and natural selection is as a theory about individual organisms. Over a century later, a subtle but radical shift in perspective emerged with the gene's-eye view of evolution in which natural selection was conceptualized as a struggle between genes for replication and transmission to the next generation. This viewpoint culminated with the publication of The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (Oxford University Press, 1976) and is now commonly referred to as selfish gene thinking. The gene's-eye view has subsequently played a central role in evolutionary biology, although it continues to attract controversy. The central aim of this accessible book is to show how the gene's-eye view differs from the traditional organismal account of evolution, trace its historical origins, clarify typical misunderstandings and, by using examples from contemporary experimental work, show why so many evolutionary biologists still consider it an indispensable heuristic. The book concludes by discussing how selfish gene thinking fits into ongoing debates in evolutionary biology, and what they tell us about the future of the gene's-eye view of evolution."--
Author |
: Sewall Wright |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 664 |
Release |
: 1986 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226910547 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226910543 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Evolution by : Sewall Wright
All of Sewall Wright's published papers on evolution up to 1950, and a few published later, are gathered in this volume. William Provine's introductions to each paper include pertinent references to related portions of Provine's Sewall Wright and Evolutionary Biology and Wright's four-volume masterwork, Evolution and the Genetics of Populations. By comparing the papers in this volume with the corresponding topics in the larger work, it is possible to determine the respects in which Wright extended, changed, or remained constant in his ideas over a period of sixty years. Wright's shifting-balance theory of evolution, first conceived in 1925, has proved enormously useful in modern evolutionary biology. Wright's international prestige has never been higher than it is currently, and the time is ripe for a rereading of his seminal papers. These papers are not only historically important for understanding the period of the "evolutionary synthesis" of the 1930s and 1940s, but continue to be stimulating and useful to working evolutionary biologists today.
Author |
: Erik Svensson |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 338 |
Release |
: 2012-05-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199595372 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199595372 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Adaptive Landscape in Evolutionary Biology by : Erik Svensson
The 'Adaptive Landscape' has been a central concept in population genetics and evolutionary biology since this powerful metaphor was first formulated in 1932. This volume brings together historians of science, philosophers, ecologists, and evolutionary biologists, to discuss the state of the art from several different perspectives.
Author |
: Sewall Wright |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 664 |
Release |
: 1986-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226910539 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226910536 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Evolution by : Sewall Wright
This volume emphasizes the period before 1950. During this period Wright thought of himself primarily as an experimental physiological geneticist rather than as a theoretical population geneticist.