The Darwinian Tradition in Context

1. Introduction: Darwinism or a Kaleidoscope of Research Programs and Ideas?
Richard G. Delisle

Part I. From a Pluralistic Darwinism to an Ever More Inclusive Darwinism

2. Selfish Genes and Lucky Breaks: Richard Dawkins’ and Stephen Jay Gould’s Divergent Darwinian Agendas
Timothy Shanahan

3. The Behavioral Sciences and Sociobiology: A Darwinian Approach
John Alcock

4. Darwinism in the Twentieth Century: Productive Encounters with Saltation, Acquired Characteristics, and Development
David J. Depew

5. Darwinism After the Modern Synthesis
Massimo Pi+gliucci

6. Human Evolution as a Theoretical Model for an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
Adam Arsdale

Part II. Crossing the Boundaries: Between Non-Darwinian and Darwinian

7. From Charles Darwin to the Evolutionary Synthesis: Weak and Diffused Connections Only
Richard G. Delisle

8. Major Research Traditions in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Biology: The Relations of Germany’s Darwinism with Them
Georgy S. Levit, Uwe Hoßfeld

9. Alternatives to Darwinism in the Early Twentieth Century
Peter J. Bowler

10. The Organismal Synthesis: Holistic Science and Developmental Evolution in the English-Speaking World, 1915–1954
Maurizio Esposito

11. Lamarckian Research Programs in French Biology (1900–1970)
Laurent Loison, Emily Herring

12. Molecularizing Evolutionary Biology
Michel Morange

13. Cells, Development, and Evolution: Teeth Studies at the Intersection of Fields
Kate MacCord, Jane Maienschein

14. Symbiogenesis and Cell Evolution: An Anti-Darwinian Research Agenda?
Ulrich Kutschera

15. Paleobiology’s Uneasy Relationship with the Darwinian Tradition: Stasis as Data
Derek D. Turner

Keywords: Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, History of Science, Philosophy of Biology, Developmental Biology, History of Philosophy