Darwinism evolving: systems dynamics and the genealogy of natural selection

Abstract

Introduction - Darwinism as a research tradition. Part 1 Darwin's Darwinism: evolution and the crisis of neoclassical biology a short look at One Long Argument - the origins of On the Origins of the Species Tory biology and Whig geology - Charles Lyell and the limits of Newtonian dynamics the Newton of a blade of grass - Darwin and the political economists domesticating Darwin - the British reception of On the Origin of the Species. Part 2 Genetic Darwinism and the probability revolution: ontogeny and phylogeny - the ascendancy of developmentalism in the later-19th-century evolutionary theory statistics, biometry, and eugenics - Francis Galton and the new Darwinism Mendel, Mendelism, and the Mendelian revolution - natural selection versus genetics the Boltzmann of a blade of grass - R.A. Fisher's thermodynamic model of genetic natural selection giving chance (half) a chance - Sewell Wright, Theodosius Dobzhansky, and genetic drift species, speciation, and systematics in the modern synthesis. Part 3 Molecular biology, complex dynamics, and the future of Darwinism: the molecular revolution expanding the synthesis - the modern synthesis responds to the molecular revolution developmental redivivus - evolution's unsolved mysteries new models of evolutionary dynamics - selection, self-organization, and complex systems the thermodynamics of evolution natural selection, self-organization, and the future of Darwinism.