Brief Contents 5
Expanded Contents 6
Chapter 1: Defining and Revising the Structure of Evolutionary Theory 20
PART I: The History of Darwinian Logic and Debate 110
Chapter 2: The Essence of Darwinism and the Basis of Modern Orthodoxy: An Exegesis of the Origin of Species 112
Chapter 3: Seeds of Hierarchy 189
Chapter 4: Internalism and Laws of Form: Pre-Darwinian Alternatives to Functionalism 270
Chapter 5: The Fruitful Facets of Galton’s Polyhedron: Channels and Saltations in Post-Darwinian Formalism 361
Chapter 6: Pattern and Progress on the Geological Stage 486
Chapter 7: The Modern Synthesis as a Limited Consensus 522
Part II: Towards a Revised and Expanded Evolutionary Theory 612
Chapter 8: Species as Individuals in the Hierarchical Theory of Selection 614
Chapter 9: Punctuated Equilibrium and the Validation of Macroevolutionary Theory 764
Chapter 10: The Integration of Constraint and Adaptation (Structure and Function) in Ontogeny and Phylogeny: Historical Constraints and the Evolution of Development 1044
Chapter 11: The Integration of Constraint and Adaptation (Structure and Function) in Ontogeny and Phylogeny: Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and the Centrality of Exaptation in Macroevolution 1198
Chapter 12: Tiers of Time and Trials of Extrapolationism, With an Epilog on the Interaction of General Theory and Contingent History 1315
Bibliography 1363
Illustration Credits 1407
Index 1412