The Relative Value of the Processes Causing Evolution (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Arend L. Hagedoorn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331917700 ISBN 13: 9781331917700

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Evolution and genetics, clarified: this book argues for an integrated view of how genes shape life over time. It surveys how genetics has become a disciplined science, moving beyond single-cause theories to connect facts from zoology, botany, and breeding. The author compares Darwin’s broad perspective with later ideas about variation, selection, and mutation, showing why a single mechanism cannot explain evolution.

1) A clear, evidence-based discussion of how genetics developed as a field.
2) Explanations of how different scientists framed variation, inheritance, and evolution.
3) Examples of sex-linked and multi-gene traits that illuminate complex inheritance.
4) A look at how local and residual populations influence species over time.

- Learn how genetics moved from isolated ideas to a cohesive, inductive science.
- See why researchers now emphasize correlating facts across disciplines.
- Understand the limits of one-cause theories and the value of multiple processes.
- Explore real-world examples that illustrate how genes affect traits and evolution.

Ideal for readers curious about the history and practice of genetics in evolution, and for those seeking a practical, non-technical overview of how inheritance shapes species.

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Excerpt from The Relative Value of the Processes Causing Evolution

But at times the feeling will not down, that a great number of eminent and able Biologists utterly fail to understand in how far their results have value in themselves, and in how far they are but building-stones. Many do not seem to see, that, without a timely attempt to utilize their results in construct ing a coherent whole of a higher order much detail is utterly wasted, being without significance in itself. It is very evident that many fail to see the forest because of all the trees.

There is no real spirit of subordination of the different genet ical investigations to the main problems of evolution, in the work of any but Bateson and a few others. What we need from time to time, is to pause, and try to see' what all the others are doing, where they are going, what work is left undone, and where work is unnecessarily duplicated.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331917700
• ISBN 13: 9781331917700
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 307