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A Brief History of Evolutionary Genetics


General Bibliography

Beatty, J.  1985  Dobzhansky and drift:  Facts, values and chance in evolutionary biology.  chap. 11 in The Probabilistic Revolution. vol. 2.  eds. Gigerenzer, Krüger & Moran, MIT Press.

Gould, S.J.  1983  The hardening of the modern synthesis.  Chap. 4 in: Grene, M. (ed.)  1983  Dimensions of Darwinism.

Grene, M. (ed.)  1983  Dimensions of Darwinism.  Cambridge Univ. Press.

Haldane, J.B.S.  1932  The Causes of Evolution.  Longmans.

Hodge, M.  1986  Natural selection as a causal, empirical and probabilistic theory.  chap. 10 in The Probabilistic Revolution. vol. 2.  eds. Gigerenzer, Krüger & Moran, MIT Press.

Lewontin, R.  1974  The genetic basis of evolutionary change.  Columbia Univ. Press

Maynard Smith, J.  1987  J.B.S. Haldane.  Oxf. Surv. Evol. Biol.  4:  1-9.

Mayr, E.  1982  The growth of biological thought.  Harvard Univ. Press.

Mayr, E. & W. Provine  1980  The Evolutionary Synthesis.  Harvard Univ. Press.

Norton, B.  1983  Fisher's entrance into evolutionary Science:  the role of eugenics.  Chap 1 in: Grene, M. (ed.)  1983  Dimensions of Darwinism.

Provine, W.  1971  The origins of theoretical population genetics.  Univ. Chicago Press.

_________  1983  The development of  Wright's theory of evolution:  systematics, adaptation, and drift.  Chap. 3 in: Grene, M. (ed.)  1983  Dimensions of Darwinism.

_________  1985  The R.A. Fisher-S. Wright controversy and its influence upon modern evolutionary biology.  Oxf. Surv. Evol. Biol.  2:  197-219.

_________ 1985  Adaptation & mechanisms of evolution after Darwin:  A study of persistent controversies.  Chap 28 in:  D. Kohn (ed.) The Darwinian Heritage.  Princeton Univ. Press.

_________  1986  Sewall Wright and Evolutionary Biology.  University of Chicago Press.

Turner, J.R.G.  1983  Fisher's evolutionary faith and the challenge of mimicry.  Oxf. Surv. Evol. Biol.  2:  159-196.

__________  1985  Random genetic drift, R.A. Fisher, and the Oxford School of ecological genetics.  chap. 12 in The Probabilistic Revolution. vol. 2.  eds. Gigerenzer, Krüger & Moran, MIT Press.

Depew, D.J. & B.H. Weber 1995  Darwinism Evolving.  A Bradford Book;  MIT Press.

Wright, S.  1930  Review of Fisher's "The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection."  J. Heredity 21:  349-356.