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Offers a historical reconstruction of the evolutionary synthesis of the 1930s and 1940s. This book argues that the evolutionary synthesis was part of a larger process of unifying the biological sciences. It suggests that the drive to unify the sciences of evolution and biology was part of a global philosophical movement toward unifying knowledge.

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PrefaceAcknowledgmentsCh. 1The Exegesis of Unifying Biology3Ch. 2A "Moving Target": Historical Background on the Evolutionary Synthesis19Ch. 3Rethinking the Evolutionary Synthesis: Historiographic Questions and Perspectives Explored45Ch. 4The New Contextualism: Science as Discourse and Culture73Ch. 5The Narrative of Unifying Biology: The Evolutionary Synthesis and Evolutionary Biology97Ch. 6Reproblematizing the Evolutionary Synthesis191Ch. 7Epilogue211Select Bibliography217Index223

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/12/1996
      ISBN13: 9780691033433, 978-0691033433
      ISBN10: 0691033439

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offers a historical reconstruction of the evolutionary synthesis of the 1930s and 1940s. This book argues that the evolutionary synthesis was part of a larger process of unifying the biological sciences. It suggests that the drive to unify the sciences of evolution and biology was part of a global philosophical movement toward unifying knowledge.

      Trade Review
      One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997

      Table of Contents
      PrefaceAcknowledgmentsCh. 1The Exegesis of Unifying Biology3Ch. 2A "Moving Target": Historical Background on the Evolutionary Synthesis19Ch. 3Rethinking the Evolutionary Synthesis: Historiographic Questions and Perspectives Explored45Ch. 4The New Contextualism: Science as Discourse and Culture73Ch. 5The Narrative of Unifying Biology: The Evolutionary Synthesis and Evolutionary Biology97Ch. 6Reproblematizing the Evolutionary Synthesis191Ch. 7Epilogue211Select Bibliography217Index223

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