Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-274) and index
Darwin's century : beyond the essentialism story -- Systematics and the birth of the natural system -- The origins of morphology, the science of form -- Owen and Darwin, the archetype and the ancestor -- Evolutionary morphology : the first generation of evolutionists -- Interlude -- Neo-Darwin's century : explaining the absence and the reappearance of development in evolutionary thought -- The invention of heredity -- Basics of the evolutionary synthesis -- Structuralist reactions to the synthesis -- The synthesis matures -- Recent debates and the continuing tension
