Darwin without borders? Looking at 'generalised Darwinism' through the prism of the 'hourglass model'

Theory in Biosciences

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 299-312

  Levit, Georgy S ^a,b   Hoßfeld, Uwe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KING S COLLEGE   (Canada)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anti Darwinism; Generalised Darwinism; Orthogenesis; Saltationism; The 'hourglass model'; The extended Synthesis; The synthetic theory of evolution (STE)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; SOCIOBIOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; SOCIOBIOLOGY;

EID: 84855312539     PISSN: 14317613     EISSN: 16117530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12064-011-0138-8     Document Type: Article

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