Individual Development & Evolution : The Genesis of Novel Behavior

orig.cloth Minor rubbing, VG. Textual illustrations 22x14cm, xii,231 pp Contents: Conceptions of Development: Preformation & Epigenesis; Lamarck & the Idea of the Evolution of the Species; Charles Darwin on the Evolution of the Species & the Role of Embryological Development; Ernst Haeckel & the Biogenetic Law; St. George Mivart: First Intimations of the Role of Individual Development in Evolution; Francis Galton: Nature versus Nurture,or the Separation of Heredity & Environment; August Weismann, Wilhelm Roux, Wilhelm His, & Hans Driesch: An Abortive Attempt to Understand Heredity Through an Experimental Approach to Embryonic Development; Karl Pearson versus William Bateson: The Foundation of the Quantitative Study of Heredity, or Genetics without Individual Development; Walter Garstang, Gavin de Beer & Richard Goldschmidt: The Concept of Changes in Individual Development as the Basis for Evolution; R.A. Fisher; J.B.S. Haldane & Sewall Wright: The Genetics of Populations; Evolution: The Modern Synthesis & Its Failure to Incorporate Individual Development into Evolutionary Theory; Extending the Modern Synthesis: Preliminaries to a Developmental Theory of the Phenotype (Phenogenesis); From Gene to Organism: The Developing Individual as an Emergent, Interactional, Hierarchical System; Induction of Behavioral Change in Individual Development as Prelude to Evolution: The Supragenetic Developmental Basis of Evolutionary Change. …