• used the phrase "the eclipse of Darwinism" to describe the state of affairs prior to what he called the "modern synthesis". During the "eclipse", evolution...
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    predated Darwin's theories. English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley coined the term Darwinism in April 1860. Darwinism subsequently referred to the specific...
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    that natural selection "has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification". During "the eclipse of Darwinism" scientists explored alternative...
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    Modern synthesis (20th century) (category History of evolutionary biology)
    neo-Darwinism. From the 1880s onwards, biologists grew skeptical of Darwinian evolution. This eclipse of Darwinism (in Julian Huxley's words) grew out of...
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    "the eclipse of Darwinism" from the 1880s to the 1930s, various other mechanisms of evolution were given more credit. With the development of the modern...
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    Peter J. Bowler (category Charles Darwin biographers)
    The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades Around 1900 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983) The Fontana History of the...
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    contributor to environmental adaptation. First proposed during the Eclipse of Darwinism in the late 19th century, this effect has been independently proposed...
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    Alternatives to natural selection suggested during "the eclipse of Darwinism" (c. 1880 to 1920) included inheritance of acquired characteristics (neo-Lamarckism)...
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  • Evolutionary ideas of the Renaissance and Enlightenment On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin The eclipse of Darwinism Common descent Evidence of common descent...
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  • [Original hardback edition published 1983]. The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades Around 1900 (Johns Hopkins Paperbacks ed...
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    natural selection was denied, including but not limited to the late 19th century eclipse of Darwinism, alternative scientific explanations such as Lamarckism...
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    overcame the eclipse of Darwinism in the first half of the 20th century, American fundamentalist Christians began opposing the teaching of the theory of evolution...
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    [Original hardback edition published 1983]. The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades Around 1900 (Johns Hopkins Paperbacks ed...
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    discrete alleles, solves Darwin's problem, as blending does not occur. Bowler, Peter J. (1992) [1983]. The Eclipse of Darwinism. JHU Press. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-8018-4391-4...
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    PMID 24803228. Bowler, Peter J. (1983). The Eclipse of Darwinism: anti-Darwinian evolutionary theories in the decades around 1900. Johns Hopkins University...
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    Coloration evidence for natural selection (category History of evolutionary biology)
    book The Colours of Animals. In the eclipse of Darwinism. Darwin, Charles (1859). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation...
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    "Individuality and adaptation across levels of selection: how shall we name and generalise the unit of Darwinism?". PNAS. 96 (21): 11904–11909. Bibcode:1999PNAS...
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    History of biochemistry History of biotechnology History of ecology History of genetics History of evolutionary thought: The eclipse of Darwinism – Catastrophism...
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    A. Fisher and E.B. Ford, promoted the idea of natural selection throughout the period of the eclipse of Darwinism, when it was denigrated. There was...
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    now add the crooked smile of the crocodile, or at least the cracked skin that surrounds it." Alternatives to Darwinism Eclipse of Darwinism Extended...
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    of Evolutionism"; see also: Bowler, The Eclipse of Darwinism; Secord, Victorian Sensation Larson, Evolution, pp 72–73, 116–117; see also: Browne, The...
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    (1984). "Neo-Darwinism and Neo-Social Darwinism". BioScience. 34 (3): 196–197. doi:10.2307/1309778. Hoff, Charles (1986). "Evolutionary Theory: The Unfinished...
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  • and the reconstruction of life's ancestry 1860-1940, 1996, p. 164 Bowler, Peter J. The eclipse of Darwinism: anti-Darwinian evolution theories in the decades...
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    only scientist attacking natural selection. The period 1875–1925 has been called 'The eclipse of Darwinism'. After discovering many small stable heritable...
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  • experience and satisfaction." The historian and philosopher of science Ehud Lamm, on the book's reissue in 2010 for Darwin's bicentenary, writes that at...
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    The evolution of cetaceans is thought to have begun in the Indian subcontinent from even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla) 50 million years ago (mya) and to...
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    of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolutionary Theories in the Decades Around 1900. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U. Pr. Bowler, P. J. 2003. Evolution: the History...
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    ISBN 9780801883897. Bowler, Peter J. (1992). The Eclipse of Darwinism: anti-Darwinian evolutionary theories in the decades around 1900. Johns Hopkins University...
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  • mechanisms. The effects of eco-evo-devo can be a result of developmental plasticity, the result of symbiotic relationships or epigenetically inherited. The overlap...
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  • points. The beginning of this strategy, the 'thin edge of the wedge,' was Phillip Johnson's critique of Darwinism begun in 1991 in Darwinism on Trial...
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