Internal Factors in Evolution

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INTERNÁL FACTORS IN EVOLUTION Lancelot Law Whyte Is the modern synthetic theory of evolution incomplete; must it be modified to take account of recent advances in molecular biology ? The author believes that such modification is long overdue, and argues the case for a synthesis of the ideas of structure and evolution that may prove to be one of the most significant developments in biological thought of this century. The book is brief, trenchant and profound. The fact that it may not contain any ideas which are absolutely new is no weakness; rather it is in this that much of its strength lies. Whyte is to be congratulated on having brought together and unified in discussion a number of ideas that have been somewhat on the fringe of biological thought in recent years. All who are interested in the fundamental ideas of unity, ordering, complexity, adaptiveness and directiveness -and that is to say almost all biologists-should read this book. Once they have read it they are unlikely,... Tovább

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INTERNÁL FACTORS IN EVOLUTION Lancelot Law Whyte Is the modern synthetic theory of evolution incomplete; must it be modified to take account of recent advances in molecular biology ? The author believes that such modification is long overdue, and argues the case for a synthesis of the ideas of structure and evolution that may prove to be one of the most significant developments in biological thought of this century. The book is brief, trenchant and profound. The fact that it may not contain any ideas which are absolutely new is no weakness; rather it is in this that much of its strength lies. Whyte is to be congratulated on having brought together and unified in discussion a number of ideas that have been somewhat on the fringe of biological thought in recent years. All who are interested in the fundamental ideas of unity, ordering, complexity, adaptiveness and directiveness -and that is to say almost all biologists-should read this book. Once they have read it they are unlikely, whatever their response, to forget it.' W. H. Thorpe, Nature .. an advance contribution to the history of science . .. well worth reading.' Lancet SOCIAL SCIENCE PAPERBACKS 10 Ím M 111 The past twenty-five years have shown phenomenal progress in the development of the social sciences and in their application to many institutional fields-education, medicine, industry, government, the family, and the community as a whole. Social Science Paperbacks will make available to a wide readership of professional workers, teachers, students, and laymen not only established works but alsó studies that both indicate and determine the course of new thinking within these disciplines. Vissza