Sewall Wright and Evolutionary Biology"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 |
Contents
Early Life and Education 18891912 | 1 |
William Ernest Castle Edward Murray East and the Bussey | 34 |
Harvard 19121915 | 64 |
USDA and Washington 19151925 | 98 |
Path Coefficients and Animal Breeding | 126 |
The University of Chicago and Physiological Genetics | 160 |
The Problem of Adaptation and Mechanisms of Evolution | 207 |
Wright Fisher and the Theory of Evolution in Nature | 232 |
Wrights Shifting Balance Theory of Evolution | 277 |
Common terms and phrases
adaptive agouti alleles American Naturalist analysis animal breeding biologists breeders Bussey Castle Castle's Cepaea Cepaea nemoralis chapter characters chromosomes color inheritance correlation course Darwin Detlefsen differences distribution of gene Dobzhansky Drosophila melanogaster Drosophila pseudoobscura effective population effective population size Epling evolution in nature evolution of dominance evolutionary biology evolutionary theory experimental experiments Fisher and Ford fitness surface gene frequencies geneticists graduate guinea pigs Haldane heredity idea important inbred inbreeding interaction interest inversions Kimura later lethals letter Linanthus manuscript mathematical mating Mayr mechanisms of evolution Mendelian factors method of path mutation natural populations natural selection Origin of Species Panaxia dominula paper path coefficients pattern physiological genetics pigment polymorphisms population genetics problem published quantitative races random drift rats relation Science Sewall Wright shifting balance theory speciation statistical Sturtevant systematists theory of evolution tion University of Chicago USDA variability variation wrote Zoology