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  1. Unifying biology: The evolutionary synthesis and evolutionary biology.V. B. Smocovitis - 1992 - Journal of the History of Biology 25 (1):1-65.
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  • Modeling Nature: Episodes in the History of Population Ecology.Sharon E. Kingsland - 1986 - Journal of the History of Biology 19 (2):313-314.
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  • (2 other versions)Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.Julian Huxley - 1944 - Philosophy 19 (73):166-170.
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  • Moskovskaia Shkola Evoliutsionnoi Genetiki.V. V. Babkov - 1985 - Nauka.
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  • The architects of the evolutionary synthesis in national socialist Germany: science and politics.Thomas Junker & Uwe Hossfeld - 2002 - Biology and Philosophy 17 (2):223-249.
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  • Drosophila Genetics: A Reductionist Research Program.Nils Roll-Hansen - 1978 - Journal of the History of Biology 11 (1):159 - 210.
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  • His Own Synthesis: Corn, Edgar Anderson, and Evolutionary Theory in the 1940s. [REVIEW]Kim Kleinman - 1999 - Journal of the History of Biology 32 (2):293 - 320.
    Tracing the contributions of Edgar Anderson (1897-1969) of the Missouri Botanical Garden to the important discussions in evolutionary biology in the 1940s, this paper argues that Anderson turned to corn research rather than play a more prominent role in what is now known as the Evolutionary Synthesis. His biosystematic studies of Iris and Tradescantia in the 1930s reflected such Synthesis concerns as the species question and population thinking. He shared the 1941 Jesup Lectures with Ernst Mayr. But rather than preparing (...)
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  • Metaphysical foundations of the evolutionary synthesis: A historiographical note.Jonathan Harwood - 1994 - Journal of the History of Biology 27 (1):1-20.
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  • The synthesis and the synthetic theory.John Beatty - 1986 - In William Bechtel (ed.), Integrating Scientific Disciplines. University of Chicago Press. pp. 125--135.
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  • From Anomaly to Unification: Tracy Sonneborn and the Species Problem in Protozoa, 1954--1957. [REVIEW]Judy Johns Schloegel - 1999 - Journal of the History of Biology 32 (1):93 - 132.
    This article examines the critique of the biological species concept advanced by protozoan geneticist Tracy Sonneborn at the 1955 AAAS symposium on "the species problem," published subsequently in 1957. Although Sonneborn was a strong proponent of a population genetical conception of species, he became critical of the biological species concept for its failure to incorporate asexual and obligatory inbreeding organisms. It is argued that Sonneborn's intimate knowledge of the ciliate protozoan Paramecium aurelia species complex brought him into conflict with a (...)
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  • Robert E. Kohler, Landscapes and Labscapes: Exploring the Lab-Field Border in Biology. [REVIEW]Robert E. Kohler - 2003 - Journal of the History of Biology 36 (3):599-629.
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  • The architects of the evolutionary synthesis in national socialist germany: Science and politics. [REVIEW]Thomas Junker & Uwe Hoßfeld - 2002 - Biology and Philosophy 17 (2):223-249.
    The Synthetic Theory of Evolution (SyntheticDarwinism) was forged between 1925 and 1950.Several historians of science have pointed outthat this synthesis was a joint venture ofSoviet, German, American and Britishbiologists: A fascinating example of scientificcooperation, considering the fact that theevolutionary synthesis emerged during thedecades in which these countries were engagedin fierce political, military and ideologicalconflicts. The ideological background of itsAnglo-American representatives has beenanalyzed in the literature. We have examinedthe scientific work and ideological commitmentsof the German Darwinians during the ThirdReich. We based (...)
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  • The importance of morphology in the evolutionary synthesis as demonstrated by the contributions of the Oxford group: Goodrich, Huxley, and de Beer.Steven James Waisbren - 1988 - Journal of the History of Biology 21 (2):291-330.
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  • A "Second Front" in Soviet Genetics: The International Dimension of the Lysenko Controversy, 1944-1947. [REVIEW]Nikolai Krementsov - 1996 - Journal of the History of Biology 29 (2):229 - 250.
    While the simple historical view has pictured the Lysenko controversy as an uninterrupted series of Lysenko's victories-beginning with the 1936 discussion, and culminating in the infamous August 1948 meeting of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences, when genetics was officially abolished in the Soviet Union-it was certainly more complex, as recognized by such serious historians as David Joravsky and Mark Adams. As we have seen, the roles the competitors assumed in 1945–47 were the reverse of those they assumed in (...)
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  • The Evolution of Theodosius Dobzhansky: Essays on His Life and Thought in Russia and America.Mark B. Adams - 1995 - Journal of the History of Biology 28 (3):557-559.
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  • Ernst Mayr as community architect: Launching the society for the study of evolution and the journalevolution. [REVIEW]Joseph Cain - 1994 - Biology and Philosophy 9 (3):387-427.
    Ernst Mayr''s contributions to 20th century biology extend far beyond his defense of certain elements in evolutionary theory. At the center of mid-century efforts in American evolutionary studies to build large research communities, Mayr spearheaded campaigns to create a Society for the Study of Evolution and a dedicated journal,Evolution, in 1946. Begun to offset the prominence ofDrosophila biology and evolutionary genetics, these campaigns changed course repeatedly, as impediments appeared, tactics shifted, and compromises built a growing coalition of support. Preserved, however, (...)
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  • (1 other version)A critique of the species concept in biology.Th Dobzhansky - 1935 - Philosophy of Science 2 (3):344-355.
    The species concept is one of the oldest and most fundamental in biology. And yet it is almost universally conceded that no satisfactory definition of what constitutes a species has ever been proposed. The present article is devoted to an attempt to review the status of the problem from a methodological point of view. Since the species is one of the many taxonomic categories, the question of the nature of these categories in general needs to be entered into.
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  • Common Problems and Cooperative Solutions: Organizational Activity in Evolutionary Studies, 1936-1947.Joseph Cain - 1993 - Isis 84:1-25.
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  • The founding of population genetics: Contributions of the Chetverikov school 1924-1934.Mark B. Adams - 1968 - Journal of the History of Biology 1 (1):23-39.
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  • Richard Goldschmidt's "Heresies" and the Evolutionary Synthesis.Michael R. Dietrich - 1995 - Journal of the History of Biology 28 (3):431-461.
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  • Organizing Evolution: Founding the Society for the Study of Evolution (1939-1950).Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis - 1994 - Journal of the History of Biology 27 (2):241 - 309.
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  • Speciation Phenomena in Birds.Ernst Mayr - 1940 - American Naturalist 74 (752):249-278.
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  • (1 other version)Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior.Daniel C. Dennett - 1989 - Journal of the History of Biology 22 (2):361-367.
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  • (3 other versions)Body and mind.William McDougall - 1911 - Boston,: Beacon Press.
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  • (1 other version)A Missing Link In The Evolutionary Synthesis. [REVIEW]Mark Adams - 1988 - Isis 79:281-284.
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  • Towards a ‘greater degree of integration’: the Society for the Study of Speciation, 1939–41.Joe Cain - 2000 - British Journal for the History of Science 33 (1):85-108.
    Intellectual and professional reforms in evolutionary studies between 1935 and 1950 included substantial expansion, diversification, and realignment of community infrastructure. Theodosius Dobzhansky, Julian Huxley and Alfred Emerson organized the Society for the Study of Speciation at the 1939 AAAS Columbus meeting as one response to concerns about ‘isolation’ and ‘lack of contact’ among speciation workers worried about ‘dispersed’ and ‘scattered’ resources in this newly robust ‘borderline’ domain. Simply constructed, the SSS sought neither the radical reorganization of specialities nor the creation (...)
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  • Synthesis and Selection: Wynne-Edwards' Challenge to David Lack.Mark E. Borrello - 2003 - Journal of the History of Biology 36 (3):531-566.
    David Lack of Oxford University and V. C. Wynne- Edwards of Aberdeen University were renowned ornithologists with contrasting views of the modern synthesis which deeply influenced their interpretation and explanation of bird behavior. In the 1950's and 60's Lack became the chief advocate of neo-Darwinism with respect to avian ecology, while Wynne- Edwards developed his theory of group selection. Lack 's position was consistent with the developing focus on individual level adaptation, which was a core concept of the modern synthesis. (...)
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  • Evolutionary Theory: The Unfinished Synthesis.[author unknown] - 1987 - Journal of the History of Biology 20 (3):424-425.
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