Die Architektur der Synthese. Entstehung und Philosophie der modernen Evolutionstheorie

Dissertation, University of Konstanz (1996)
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This Ph.D. thesis provides a pilosophical account of the structure of the evolutionary synthesis of the 1930s and 40s. The first, more historical part analyses how classical genetics came to be integrated into evolutionary thinking, highlighting in particular the importance of chromosomal mapping of Drosophila strains collected in the wild by Dobzansky, but also the work of Goldschmidt, Sumners, Timofeeff-Ressovsky and others. The second, more philosophical part attempts to answer the question wherein the unity of the synthesis consisted. I argue that it exemplifies a weak of form of explanatory unification.

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Marcel Weber
University of Geneva

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