Table of Contents
General Introduction
I. EVOLUTION
Introduction: Darwin Vindicated
Basic Concepts of Evolutionary Biology
The Evolution of Living Systems
Typological versus Population Thinking
Accident or Design: The Paradox of Evolution
Selection and Directional Evolution
Population Size and Evolutionary Parameters
From Molecules to Organic Diversity
Sexual Selection and Natural Selection
The Emergence of Evolutionary Novelties
II. SPECIATION
Introduction
Darwin and Isolation
Darwin, Wallace, and the Origin of Isolating Mechanisms
Karl Jordan on Speciation
Sympatric Speciation
Bird Speciation in the Tropics
Change of Environment and Speciation
Geographical Character Gradients and Climatic Adaptation
III. HISTORY OF BIOLOGY
Introduction
Lamarck Revisited
Agassiz, Darwin, and Evolution
The Nature of the Darwinian Revolution
Karl Jordan on the Theory of Systematics and Evolution
Where Are We?
The Recent Historiography of Genetics
IV. PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY
Introduction
Cause and Effect in Biology
Explanatory Models in Biology
Theory Formation in Developmental Biology
Teleological and Teleonomic: A New Analysis
V. THEORY OF SYSTEMATICS
Introduction
The Challenge of Diversity
The Role of Systematics in Biology
Theory of Biological Classification
Cladistic Analysis or Cladistic Classification
VI. THE SPECIES
Introduction
Toward a Modern Species Definition
Karl Jordan and the Biological Species Concept
Species Concepts and Definitions
Sibling or Cryptic Species among Animals
The Biological Meaning of species
VII. MAN
Introduction
Taxonomic Categories in Fossil Hominids
VIII. BIOGEOGRAPHY
Introduction
What Is a Fauna?
History of the North American Bird Fauna
Inferences Concerning the Tertiary North American Bird Faunas
The Origin and History of the Polynesian Bird Fauna
Land Bridges and Dispersal Facilities
Wallace's Line in the Light of Recent Zoogeographic Studies
Fragments of a Papuan Ornithogeography
The Ornithogeography of the Hawaiian Islands
The Nature of Colonization of Birds
IX. BEHAVIOR
Introduction
Behavior and Systematics
Behavior Programs and Evolutionary Strategies
INDEX
