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Introduction
Part I. 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
Part II. 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.
Part I. 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
Part II. 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.