A rich and wide-ranging philosophical interpretation of the history of theoretical Darwinism.
List of illustrationsPreface to the English editionIntroduction1Pt. 1The Darwinian hypothesis171Wallace and Darwin: a disagreement and its meaning192The ontology of selection603Jenkin's objections, Darwin's dilemma85Pt. 2Selection faced with the challenge of heredity: sixty years of principled crisis1034Galton and the concept of heredity1055Post-Darwinian views of selection and regression1476The strategy of indirect corroboration: the case of mimicry1787The search for direct proof: biometry1978Establishing the possibility of natural selection: the confrontation of Darwinism and Mendelism253Pt. 3The genetic theory of selection3199The place of selection in theoretical population genetics32110The empirical and the formal355Conclusion397Notes408Bibliography470Index504