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by Stephen Jay Gould


  salience of, 898

  Bahn, P. G., 955-956, 978

  Bailey, M., 988

  Baird, G. C., 865-866, 918-920

  Bak, Per, 924, 926, 927

  Baker, H. B., 1047-1051

  balance, concept of, 247

  baldness, 338

  Balzac, 311

  Bang, R., 1121-1122

  Barnes, C. R., 852

  Barnes, N. S., 998, 1023

  Barnovsky, A. D., 855

  Barrymore, Ethel, 583

  Bates, Marston, 571

  Bateson, William, 344, 396-415, 466, 1096, 1098

  argument for saltational change, 67, 144, 401-405

  implications for Darwinism and, 405-415

  Materials for the Study of Variation, 398-415

  Modern Synthesis and, 505-506, 567, 569

  Problems of Genetics, 410, 414-415

  vibration theory and, 67, 402n, 410-411, 412, 456

  Baudelaire, Charles-Picric, 169

  Baumiller, T. K., 891

  “bearded lady,” 338

  Beaumont, Elie de, 484, 490

  bedding plane

  dating in, 771-772

  “geological moment” and, 768, 851

  beetles, 886n

  Begg, C. B., 764

  behavioral sciences, 952

  Bell, Michael A., 828-830, 835, 883

  Benson, R. H., 853

  Bentham, Jeremy, 230, 232n

  Bergstrom, J., 844-845

  Berlin, J. A., 764

  Berry, M. S., 956

  biases in science, 791-792, 795. See also cultural influences; publication bias; reductionism; sampling bias Bible. See also creationism; natural theology

  constraint as term and, 1025-1026

  as source of information, 489, 1311-1312

  bicalyx mutant, 1146-1147

  Bier, E., 1119-1120, 1121

  bifurcation, 817-820, 922

  bilaterian history. See also arthropod and vertebrate developmental homologies

  channeling vs. unconstrained adaptation and, 84, 1147-1155, 1272-1273

  dorso-ventral inversion and, 83, 1117

  Precambrian origins and, 1155-1161

  billiard ball metaphor, 350

  biogenetic law, 208, 353, 362, 367-368

  biogeography, 113-115

  Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, 580, 581, 583

  biomechanical advantage, and trends, 79, 889-890, 950, 1270-1271

  “biophors,” 214-215

  biostratigraphy, 751-752

  biotas, and relative frequency claims, 856-866

  biotic competition Darwinian dilemma about progress and, 68-69, 469-470, 475-477

  extinction by, 1299-1300, 1302-1303

  predominance of, 470-479, 705

  sequelae of, 477-479

  themes in Origin and, 471-473, 476-478

  birth. See also punctuations; speciation; viviparity

  as criterion for individuality, 602, 603, 604-606

  punctuational interval and, 768-772

  of species, 725n-726n, 776-781

  birth biases in organismal selection, 449

  Blackburn, D. G., 942-946

  Blainville, Henri de, 301

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  “blending inheritance,” 622

  Bliss, R. B., 986-987, 988

  Blyth, Edward, 137

  body size, and survivorship, 1318-1320. See also Cope’s Law

  Bohm, 1138

  Bonner, J. T., 580, 582

  bookkeeping vs. causality, 73, 632-637, 643-644, 655-656

  Boolootian, 577, 580

  Boucot, A. I., 917

  Boulding, K. E., 956-957

  Bowler, P., 342

  Bown, T. M., 864

  Boyajian, G., 901

  Boyle, R., 65, 117

  Brackman, A. C., 233, 248

  Bradley, R. S., 956

  Bradleya, 832

  branching, 612-613. See also cladogenesis

  speciation by, in punctuated equilibrium, 776-781

  species as individuals and, 605-606

  Brandon, R. N., 705, 708-709

  Brenner, S., 1269-1270

  Breton, G., 871

  Brett, C. E., 865-866, 918-920

  Bretz, J H., 482

  Breuil, Abbe Henri, 953-954

  Bridgewater Treatises, 65, 117, 276, 315

  British formalism. See Owen, Richard

  British functionalism, 65, 262-271. See also Paley, William

  British intellectual tradition, 252-253, 312-316

  British Museum debate, 984-985

  Bromham, L., 1155-1156, 1157

  Brooks, W. K., 344

  Brosius, J., 691, 1268

  Browne, J., 234n

  Bryan, William Jennings, 163, 412

  bryozoan species, 78, 786-789, 796, 827, 892-893

  BSCS textbooks. See Biological Sciences Curriculum Study

  Buckland, W., 45, 180

  Budd, A. F., 888n, 937-939

  Burchfield, J. D., 497

  Burke, A. C., 1171-1172

  Burkhardt, R. W., 182, 186

  Burnet, T., 398

  Bush, G., 452

  Buss, L., 679, 696, 697-700

  butterflies

  coloration of, 355, 362

  mimicry in, 218-219, 1130

  wing development in, 1165-1167

  Cain, A. J., 43-44, 542

  Cairns, J., 1053

  Cambrian explosion. See also deep homology

  “Cambrian explosion hypothesis” and, 1155-1156

  Darwin and, 496-497

  deep homologies and, 84, 1143-1144

  historical constraints as set in, 1155-1161

  Kauffman and, 1212

  cancer. See cell-individual

  Capps, R., 990

  Carmines, E. G., 977

  Carrasco, A. E., 1102

  Carroll, S. B., 1099, 1143, 1168-1169, 1172

  Cartwright, P, 1153-1154

  Cassares, F., 1105

  Castle, W. E., 143

  catastrophic mass extinction. See also K-T (Cretaceous-Tertiary) transition

  Cuvier’s argument for and, 69, 484-492

  Darwinian theory and, 54, 55, 58, 61, 162-163, 168, 474-475, 478, 1298-1303

  “different rules” model and, 1315-1320, 1323, 1330

  effects of uniformitarian assumptions on research and, 1303-1306

  hardening of Modern Synthesis and, 560-561

  historical elements of validity of, 483-484

  history of geology and, 44-45, 69, 1298

  impact model and, 88, 1306-1312

  models for survivorship in, 1314-1320

  punctuated equilibrium and, 75-76

  punctuational models and, 948

  random model and, 1314-1315, 1323

  Raup’s “field of bullets” model and, 1323-1326

  theoretical importance of scenarios of, 1312-1320

  as theory, 922-923

  uniformitarian assumptions and, 52, 58, 61, 162-163, 455, 481, 483-484, 1298-1303

  Catmull, J., 1131

  Carton, W. R., Jr., 1239

  causality. See also adaptationism; evolutionary mechanisms; levels of selection; structuralist-functionalist dichotomy

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  vs. bookkeeping, 73, 632-637, 643-644, 655-656

  concept of cause and, 626-627

  Darwinian vs. interactionist formulations and, 31-33

  final cause and, 65, 288-289, 1187-1189

  Lamarck and, 172, 176-179, 182-183, 195-196, 249

  for stasis, 877-885

  cave fishes, blindness in, 203-204

  cave paintings, 953-956

  cell-individual, 73-74, 695-700

  Cenozoic, punctuational dominance in, 752-753, 754-755, 831-832. See also Foraminifera

  centennial celebrations, comparison of, 566-576. See also Darwin’s centennial (Cambridge, 1909); Origin centennial (1959)

  central principles. See minimal commitments of Darwinism Cepaea, 538, 542

  cerato
psian extinction, 1331-1332, 1337

  Cerion, 38, 52, 599, 771-772, 851

  geographic variation in, 81, 82, 599, 1047-1051

  positive constraint and, 81, 82, 1047-1051

  ceteris paribus argument, 628-632, 873

  Chaisson, E., 996

  Chalfie, M., 1138

  chambered nautiloids, 1315

  Chamberlain, J. L., 1341

  Chambers, Robert

  Darwin’s revolution and, 93-94, 193n-194n, 587

  Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (Chambers), 174, 193n-194n

  chance. See randomness, concept of

  change. See also catastrophic mass extinction; evolutionary mechanisms; gradualism; punctuated equilibrium theory

  as criterion for individuality, 602

  nature of, and theory of punctuated equilibrium, 922-928, 970

  non homogeneity of modes of, and time, 1326-1327

  role of historical constraint in, 602, 1056-1057

  vs. stasis as norm, 884-885, 929

  channeling. See also historical constraint; internal constraint; orthogenesis; positive constraint

  as cause of parallelism, 1075-1076

  developmental saltations and, 1142-1147

  Goldschmidt and, 456, 461

  as positive constraint in orthogenesis, 66, 352-353, 361-362, 395

  synergy with adaptation and, 80-81, 1037-1051 (see also Gryphaea)

  chaos theory, 922. See also complex systems theory

  Chaplin, G., 1241

  Chapman, D. J., 1319

  Chatterjee, S., 1240

  Cheetham, A. H., 78, 786-789, 796, 843, 844, 867-870, 875, 1034

  Chesapeake Group molluscan lineages, 857-859

  Chesapecten species, 853-854

  Chesteron, G. K., 765

  Chicago Macroevolution meeting, 981 -984, 988, 1023, 1046, 1065-1066

  civilization, patterns in development of, 956-957, 959, 962-966

  clade-individual, 712-714. See also interdemic selection

  clade selection and, 883

  “different rules” model and, 1318

  heterochronic biases and, 1039

  relative frequency data and, 866-870

  stasis analogs in clades and, 936-939

  trends and, 890-893

  cladogenesis. See also branching anagenetic modes of speciation and, 436, 813-822

  ancestral survival as criterion and, 840-850

  aptive triangle representation and, 1059, 1060

  de Vries and, 436

  modelling and, 813-822

  as term, 817-818

  Clark, D. L., 1319

  Clark, H. W., 988

  Clark, R. B., 1106

  Clarkia concinna, 1146-1147

  Cleland, H. F., 750

  Clemens, Samuel (Mark Twain), 494

  climatic change, 864-865, 873. See also catastrophic mass extinction

  clines, and nonadaptational modes of speciation, 535, 538

  clone, as evolutionary individual, 807-810

  clumping

  historical constraint and, 1055-1056, 1173-1178

  problem of, 527-524, 916-917, 1101

  Cnidaria, 1152-1153

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  co-adaptation, 218

  Coates, A. G., 888n, 937-939

  Coates, M. I., 1171, 1172

  codical hierarchy, 641-644

  Cohen, S. M., 1023, 1168

  cohesion, as criterion for individuality, 602

  Cohn, M. J., 1171-1173

  coiling. See Gryphaea; snails, coiling in Coleridge, S. T., 262

  colinearity, property of, 1100-1101

  collaboration. See also interdisciplinary communication

  conceptual development and, 27-29

  “collectivity, ” 674

  Collins, M., 1169

  Columba livia, 385-386. See also pigeon Columbus, Christopher, 225

  communication systems, 960

  communities, as units of selection, 612-613, 924

  compensation, principle of, 300-301, 335

  competition. See also biotic competition

  Darwin and, 469, 470-471

  species as interactors and, 705-706, 738

  complexity, and spandrels, 1263-1266

  complex systems theory, 922, 926-927, 1208-1214, 1273-1274. See also Kauffman, Stuart

  comprehensiveness, 55-57

  computer simulations. See mathematical modelling

  concepts, as theory-bound, 620-622, 1032-1037, 1057-1061

  concordance of several. See consilience Conditions of Existence Cuvier and, 291-298

  Darwin and, 64, 251, 329 (see also structuralist-functionalist dichotomy)

  “conjoints,” 930, 952, 958-959, 970

  connections, principle of, 300, 305

  consensus concept, 879

  consequentiality, and spandrels, 1253-1255

  consilience, 104, 108-111

  “consistency argument,” 558

  continental formalist tradition, 65, 118, 261n, 271-278

  contingency

  bilaterian design and, 1159-1161

  Darwin’s sense of, 1217, 1333-1336, 1339

  explanatory modes in science and, 1338-1342

  history and, 46-47

  Kauffman and, 1212, 1335-1337

  in literary world, 1340-1342

  Nietzsche and, 1217-1218

  quirky functional shift and, 1224-1227

  continuity, as criterion for individuality, 602-603

  Contrabithorax (Cbx) gene, 1100-1101. See also Hox genes

  conventionalism, 639-641, 656, 667

  convergence vs. parallelism

  convergence reinterpreted as parallelism and, 83, 1069

  discoveries of evo-devo and, 1068-1069

  distinction between, 52, 81-82

  homoplasy and, 1073-1076

  homoplasy of results based on underlying homology and, 1076-1081, 1128-1129

  Lankester’s categories of homology and, 1069-1076

  meaning of parallelism and, 1076-1089

  Pax-6 results and, 1127-1130

  Pharaonic bricks vs. Corinthian columns analogy and, 1134-1142

  terminological distinctions and, 81-82

  Conway Morris, S., 1159, 1161

  Coope, G. R., 754-755

  Cooper, V. S., 932, 933-934, 935-936

  cooperation vs. competition, 471

  cooptation, principle of, 1130-1132, 1140, 1161

  coordinated stasis, theory of, 79, 750, 865-866, 918-920

  Cope, E. D., 75, 366-370

  “Cope’s Law” and, 78, 836, 902-905, 1318

  law of parallelism and, 1081-1082

  Origin of the Fittest, 140, 342

  Cope’s Law, 78, 836, 902-905, 1318

  copiousness of variation as Darwinian requirement, 60, 141-143

  as post-Darwinian issue, 142-143

  coral model, 15-19, 54, 97, 146

  levels of revisions and, 19-22, 146

  vs. tree of life model, 146-147

  coral reef principle, 104. See also sequencing

  corals, non-trending in, 938-939

  “Cordelia’s dilemma,” 764-765, 783, 854, 861-864

  “correlated variability,” 336

  “correlation of parts” doctrine, 295n, 332-339

  “correlations of growth,” 58, 65-66,

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  333-335, 336, 1045, 1054, 1181. See also nonadaptive origin; spandrels

  Corsi, P., 173, 174, 176, 182

  creationism

  adaptationism preferences and, 65

  attributes of purpose and order and, 260-261

  Bateson and, 412

  consilience and, 109-111

  “creation scientists” and, 101n

  Darwin’s view of, 100-101

  errors about punctuated equilibrium and, 986-990

  Kelvin and, 497

  Owen and, 326-328

  Paley and, 65, 264

  teaching of evolution and, 981, 988-990

 
; theory of punctuated equilibrium and, 981-984, 986-990

  variation within species and, 106

  creativity of natural selection. See efficacy, as Darwinian principle

  Cretaceous-Tertiary event. See K-T (Cretaceous-Tcrtiary) transition

  Crick, F., 690, 693-694

  Croll, J., 500

  Cronin, J. E., 833, 934

  Cronin, T. M., 827-828, 829, 831-832, 842-843

  cross-level spandrels, 87, 1266-1270, 1280, 1281, 1286-1294

  Crow, J., 634-635

  crustaceans, feeding organs in, 1132-1134

  crystallins, 1242-1246, 1282

  “cultural evolution,” 134-135

  cultural history, punctuational patterns in, 952-957

  cultural impacts

  Darwin’s revolution and, 93-99, 161, 193n-194n, 587, 894, 968-969

  punctuated equilibrium in general culture and, 972-979

  cultural influences. See also biases in science; reductionism; Zeitgeist

  critiques of Darwinism and, 588

  Cuvier-Geoffroy debate and, 298, 310-312

  on Darwin, 193, 595

  economic theory and, 59, 121-125, 193, 595

  hardening of Modern Synthesis and, 541-543

  notion of progress and, 467-468

  progress and, 467-468, 588

  structuralist-functionalist dichotomy and, 252-253

  culture. See cultural history; cultural impacts; cultural influences

  Curtis, H., 582, 997-999, 1023

  Cuvier, Georges, 65, 291-298

  Agassiz and, 274-275

  anatomical design plans of, 274-275

  argument for catastrophism, 483, 484-492

  Bible as source of information for, 489

  Conditions d’existence and, 294n

  debate between Geoffroy and, 282-283, 290-293, 303, 304-312

  Discours préliminaire, 486-491, 492

  functionalism of, 293-298

  on Lamarck, 170-172

  Lamarck compared with, 176

  Leçons d'anatomie comparée, 294-295

  Le règne animal, 294, 295-296

  Lyell’s rhetorical triumph and, 482n, 483, 484-492

  “Nature” essay by, 296-297

  Owen and, 313n

  Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles, 294, 295, 486

  works by, 294-296

  cycle time, and higher-level selection, 646-647

  cyclical principle of expansion and contraction, 287-291

  Dacqué, E., 1086

  Damuth, J., 663, 672, 705, 706

  Daniel Deronda (George Eliot), 40

  D’Arcy Thompson. See Thompson, D’Arcy W.

  Darling, L., 577

  Darrow, C., 989

  Darwin, Charles, 47, 57-58. See also Origin of Species

  anticipation of punctuated equilibrium by, 1014-1015

  contingency and, 1217, 1333-1336, 1339

  “correlations of growth” and, 58, 65-66, 333-335, 336, 1054, 1181

  cultural influences on, 193, 595

  Descent of Man, 133-136, 342

  de Vries and, 419, 421-425, 596

 

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