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The synthetic theory of evolution: general problems and the German contribution to the synthesis |
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| Authors: | Wolf-Ernst Reif Thomas Junker Uwe Hoßfeld |
| Affiliation: | 1. Institut und Museum für Geologie und Paläontologie, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Sigwartstraße 10, D-72074 Tübingen;2. Lehrstuhl für Ethik in den Biowissenschaften, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, D-72074 Tübingen;3. Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Ernst-Haeckel-Haus, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, D-07745 Jena |
| Abstract: | Summary A metatheoretical and historiographical re-analysis of the Evolutionary Synthesis (the process) and the Synthetic Theory (the result) leads to the following conclusion: The Synthetic Theory is not a reductionistic, but rather a structuralistic theory with a limited range of relevant hierarchical levels. Historically the Synthesis was not a sudden event but a rational long-term project carried out between 1930 and 1950 by a large number of biologists in several countries. In the second part of our paper the contributions of several German biologists to the Synthesis are analyzed. |
| Keywords: | history of biology philosophy of science macroevolution natural selection scientific revolution |
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