The Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics: With a New AfterwordTracing the development of population genetics through the writings of such luminaries as Darwin, Galton, Pearson, Fisher, Haldane, and Wright, William B. Provine sheds light on this complex field as well as its bearing on other branches of biology. |
Contents
Darwins Theory of Natural Selection The Reaction | 1 |
THE REACTION | 10 |
Thomas H Huxley and Natura non facit Saltum | 11 |
Francis Galton Regression and Discontinuous Evolution | 14 |
Background to the Conflict between Mendelians and Biometricians | 25 |
WELDON PEARSON AND BIOMETRY | 29 |
WILLIAM BATESON AND DISCONTINUOUS EVOLUTION | 35 |
THE PUBLIC CONTROVERSIES | 45 |
Raymond Pearl and Pure Lines | 104 |
Criticism of the Pure Line Theory | 105 |
THE PROOF AND EXPLANATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SELECTION | 108 |
William Ernest Castle and Selection Theory | 109 |
The Multiple Factor Theory | 114 |
Thomas Hunt Morgan and Variation for Evolution | 120 |
Pure Line Theory and Selection | 122 |
Morgans Theory of Evolution | 125 |
The Struggle over the Evolution Committee | 48 |
The Conflict Between Mendelians and Biometricians | 56 |
THE HOMOTYPOSIS CONTROVERSY | 58 |
THE MUTATION THEORY | 64 |
INHERITANCE IN PEAS | 70 |
HEREDITY IN MICE | 73 |
MENDELISM AND BIOMETRY | 80 |
MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION 1904 | 85 |
COAT COLOR IN HORSES | 87 |
Darwinian Selection The Controversy 19001918 | 90 |
THE ARGUMENT AGAINST DARWINIAN SELECTION | 91 |
Wilhelm Johannsens Pure Line Theory | 92 |
Criticism of Johannsens Pure Line Theory | 96 |
Castle and the Selection Problem | 126 |
Population Genetics The Synthesis of Mendelism Darwinism and Biometry | 130 |
EXPLORATION OF THE MATHEMATICAL CONSEQUENCES OF MENDELIAN HEREDITY BEFORE 1918 | 131 |
RONALD ALYMER FISHER | 140 |
SEWALL WRIGHT | 154 |
J B S HALDANE | 167 |
CONCLUSIONS | 177 |
Galton Pearson and the Law of Ancestral Heredity | 179 |
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Afterword | 197 |
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