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Head of Department and Senior Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Biology
Dr Cain's research interests include the history of evolutionary studies, Darwin and Darwinism, history of science in London, history of natural history and natural history films.
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Joe Cain and Michael Ruse (editors). 2009. Descended from Darwin: Insights into the
History of Evolutionary Studies, 1900-1970 (Philadelphia: PA: American Philosophical Society. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, volume 99, part 1).
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ISBN: 978-1-60618-991-7
ISSN: 0065-9746
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Of related interest
Cain, Joe, ed. 2004. Exploring the borderlands: documents of the Committee on Common Problems of Genetics, Paleontology, and Systematics, 1943-1944. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 94: xlii + 160.
Cain, J. (ed) 2007. Sewall Wright Taught Me (London: Euston Grove
Press), 3 volumes.
volume 1: Evolution
volume 2: Genetics
volume 3: Physiological Genetics
Cain, J. (ed) 2007. Regular Contact With Anyone Interested. Documents of the Society for the Study of Speciation.
2nd edition (London: Euston Grove Press), 103p.
Descended from Darwin
Rethinking the synthesis period
This volume began at a conference, held 22–23 October 2004 at the American Philosophical Society Library, Philadelphia. The main focus was on evolutionary studies in America before, during, and after the famous “evolutionary synthesis” of the 1930s and 1940s. The synthesis period has been the focus of substantial new research and important new thinking. This volume brings together fifteen specialists to explore these developments and to press further.
Questions shaping these essays focus on the following broad themes:
- continuity and breaks across generations
- emerging narratives for the period
- new research opportunities at the APS
- new ideas from the research front
- placing evolutionists in the broader context of biology
- future directions
In addition to fifteen original essays, this volume includes a thoughtful introduction by Michael Ruse.
This conference was made possible by the generous support of the Barra Foundation and given in honour of the late Professor Frederick H. Burkhardt.
Joe Cain is Senior Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Biology at University College London. Michael Ruse is Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University.
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Papers in this volume are freely available for download, through the generous support of the American Philosophical Society. Users are expected to respect intellectual property rights. Queries on re-use and permission should be directed to the publisher in the first instance.
| author | contribution | |
| preface | Martin Levitt | Preface |
| intro | Michael Ruse | Introduction |
| Part 1 | Continuity and Breaks Across Generations | |
| 01 | Mark Largent | The So-called ‘Eclipse of Darwinism’ |
| 02 | Juan Ilerbaig |
‘The View-Point of a Naturalist’: American Field Zoologists and the Evolutionary Synthesis, 1900-1945 |
| 03 | Andy Hammond | JBS Haldane, Holism, and Synthesis in Evolution |
| Part 2 | Emerging Narratives and Broader Themes | |
| 04 | Kim Kleinman |
Biosystematics and the Origin of Species: Edgar Anderson, WH Camp and the Evolutionary Synthesis |
| 05 | Joel Hagen |
Descended from Darwin? George Gaylord Simpson, Morris Goodman, and Primate Systematics |
| 06 | Joe Cain | Ernst Mayr and the ‘Biology of Birds’ |
| 07 |
Gregory Davis, Michael Dietrich, and David Jacobs |
Homeotic Mutants and the Assimilation of Developmental Genetics into the Evolutionary Synthesis, 1915-1952 |
| Part 3 | New Ideas and New Directions | |
| 08 | Erika Milam |
The Experimental Animal from the Naturalist's Point of View: Behavior and Evolution at the AMNH, 1928-1954 |
| 09 | David Sepkoski | The Delayed Synthesis: Paleobiology in the 1970s |
| 10 | John Ceccatti | Natural Selection in the Field: Insecticide Resistance, Economic Entomology, and the Evolutionary Synthesis, 1914-1951 |
| Part 4 | Evolutionary Theory Meets Practice | |
| 11 | Frederick Davis |
Papilio dardanus: The Natural Animal from the Experimentalist’s Point of View |
| 12 | David Wÿss Rudge | H.B.D. Kettlewell’s Research 1934-1961: The Influence of J.W. Heslop Harrison |
| 13 | Roberta Millstein | Concepts of Drift and Selection in “The Great Snail Debate” of the 1950s and early 1960s |
| 14 | Robert Skipper | Revisiting the RA Fisher-Sewall Wright Controversy |
| 15 | Mark Borrello |
Shifting Balance and Balancing Selection: A Group Selectionist’s Interpretation of Wright and Dobzhansky |
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