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Tracing the development of population genetics through the writings of such luminaries as Darwin, Galton, Pearson, Fisher, Haldane, and Wright, William B. Provine sheds light on this complex field as well as its bearing on other branches of biology.
William B. Provine is the C. A. Alexander Professor of Biological Sciences at Cornell University. He is the author of Sewall Wright and Evolutionary Biology and the editor of Evolution: Selected Papers by Sewall Wright, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
| Introduction | ||
| 1 | Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection: The Reaction | 1 |
| Darwin's Theory | 1 | |
| The Reaction | 10 | |
| 2 | Background to the Conflict between Mendelians and Biometricians | 25 |
| Karl Pearson: A Sketch of His Early Life | 26 | |
| Weldon, Pearson, and Biometry | 29 | |
| William Bateson and Discontinuous Evolution | 35 | |
| The Public Controversies | 45 | |
| 3 | The Conflict between Mendelians and Biometricians | 56 |
| The Homotyposis Controversy | 58 | |
| The Mutation Theory | 64 | |
| Inheritance in Peas | 70 | |
| Heredity in Mice | 73 | |
| Mendelism and Biometry | 80 | |
| Meeting of the British Association, 1904 | 85 | |
| Coat Color in Horses | 87 | |
| The Effects of the Conflict | 89 | |
| 4 | Darwinian Selection: The Controversy, 1900-1918 | 90 |
| The Argument Against Darwinian Selection | 91 | |
| The Proof and Explanation of the Effectiveness of Selection | 108 | |
| 5 | Population Genetics: The Synthesis of Mendelism, Darwinism, and Biometry | 130 |
| Exploration of the Mathematical Consequences of Mendelian Heredity Before 1918 | 131 | |
| Ronald Alymer Fisher | 140 | |
| Sewall Wright | 154 | |
| J. B. S. Haldane | 167 | |
| Conclusions | 177 | |
| App | Galton, Pearson, and the Law of Ancestral Heredity | 179 |
| Bibliography | 189 | |
| Afterword | 197 | |
| Index | 207 |
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