Essays in Evolution and Genetics in Honor of Theodosius Dobzhansky

1 Theodosius Dobzhansky Up to Now.- Scientific Work.- A Collecting Expedition.- Acknowledgment.- Career Summary.- Theodosius Dobzhansky: Bibliography 1918–1969.- 2 Uniformitarianism. An Inquiry into Principle, Theory, and Method in Geohistory and Biohistory.- Origins; Hutton.- Lyell; Conybeare.- Lyell; Darwin.- Since Darwin.- Immanence and Configuration.- Classification of Current Issues.- Naturalism.- Actualism.- Historicism.- Evolutionism.- Gradualism.- Historical Inferences.- Summary and Conclusion.- References.- 3 Evolution of Matter and Consciousness and Its Relation to Panpsychistic Identism.- Natural Laws and Their Epigenetic Manifestation.- Causal Analysis of Life Processes.- Factors and Laws of Organismic Evolution.- Psychogenesis and the Epistemological Analysis of Matter.- Physical Analysis of Matter.- The Psychophysical Substrate and the Problem of the Psychophysical Connection.- The Panpsychistic, Polynomistic, and Realistic Identism.- References.- 4 Competition, Coexistence, and Evolution.- The Ecological Niche.- The Concept of Competition.- The Principle of Competitive Exclusion.- The Logistic Theory of Population Growth.- Volterra’s Equations for Competitive Exclusion.- Coexistence of Related Species in Nature.- Coexistence in the Laboratory.- The Role of Natural Selection.- Summary.- References.- 5 Adapted Molecules.- Adaptation at the Molecular Level.- Molecular Adaptation and Phylogeny.- Molecular Adaptation at the Population Level.- Conclusions.- References.- 6 Variation and Evolution in Plants: Progress During the Past Twenty Years.- Variation Patterns.- Examples of Variation Patterns.- The Basis of Individual Variation.- Natural Selection and Variation in Populations.- Genetic Systems as Factors in Evolution.- Isolation and the Origin ofSpecies.- Hybridization and its Effects.- Polyploidy and Apomixis.- Structural Hybridity and Chromosomal Evolution.- Evolution Above the Species Level.- References.- 7 Population Research in the Scandinavian Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.): Recent Experimentation.- Material and Methods.- Climatic Conditions of the Experimental Plantations and the Natural Populations Involved.- Cumulative Mortality and Survival.- Cumulative Mortality and Survival in Selected Experimental Plantations.- Single-Year Mortality.- Height Growth.- Conclusions and Summary.- References.- 8 Heterozygosity and Genetic Polymorphism in Parthenogenetic Animals.- Nature of Parthenogenesis.- Parthenogenesis in Vertebrates.- Parthenogenesis in Insects.- Conclusions.- References.- 9 Evolutionary Studies on Maniola jurtina (Lepidoptera, Satyridae): The “Boundary Phenomenon” in Southern England 1961 to 1968.- Dedication.- Studies of the Southern English and East Cornish Types up to 1960.- 1961 to 1968.- Discussion.- Summary.- Acknowledgments.- References.- 10 The Genetic Basis of a Cell-Pattern Homology in Drosophila Species.- Kynurenine Distribution in the Larval Fat Body.- Hybrid Autofluorescent Patterns.- Acknowledgments.- References.- 11 Ecological Factors and the Variability of Gene-Pools in Drosophila.- Relations Between Ecological Heterogeneity, Genetic Variability, and Fitness in Drosophila Populations.- Conclusions.- Summary.- Acknowledgments.- References.- 12 Mating Propensity and Its Genetic Basis in Drosophila.- Mating Propensity as a Genetic Character in Drosophila.- Chromosomal Polymorphism and Mating Propensity.- Factors Modifying Mating Propensity.- Summary.- Acknowledgments.- References.- 13 Observations on the Microdispersion of Drosophila melanogaster.- The Bryant Park Experiments.-Experimental Populations.- The “Tropical Rainforest” Greenhouse Experiments.- Venetian Experiments.- Discussion.- References.- 14 Studies on the Evolutionary Biology of Chilean Species of Drosophila.- Widespread Species of Drosophila.- Endemic and Ecologically Restricted Species.- Endemic and Ecologically Versatile Species.- Isolation and Chromosomal Structure.- Acknowledgments.- References.- 15 The Evolutionary Biology of the Hawaiian Drosophilidae.- Habitat.- Drosophilid Fauna.- Biology and Behavior.- Chromosomal and Genetic Characteristics.- Evolution, Speciation, and Migration.- Summary.- Acknowledgments.- References.- 16 Human Genetic Adaptation.- Heritability.- Estimation of Heritability.- Random Mating.- The Markov Property.- Shall We Count the Living or the Dead?.- Simplest Selection Model.- Correlated Responses.- Genetic Improvement of Mankind.- Genetic Deterioration.- Decline of Intelligence.- Control of Human Evolution: Reproductive Specialization.- Genotype-Environment Interaction.- Summary and Conclusions.- References.- Author Index.