Richard G. Delisle owns a PhD in paleoanthropology (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) and a PhD in philosophy (University of Montreal, Canada). He teaches evolutionary biology and history/philosophy of science in the programs of archaeology, philosophy, and liberal education at the University of Lethbridge (Canada). His research interest focuses on the multidisciplinary quest of understanding evolutionary studies under the intimate light of its past and current developments.

• Chapter 1:  Introduction: In Search of a New Paradigm for the Development of Evolutionary Biology.- Part I: Crossing Perspectives about Evolution: Historians versus Biologists.- Chapter 2: Cathedrals, Corals and Mycelia: Three Analogies for the History of Evolutionary Biology.- Part II: Different Views of Charles Darwin.- Chapter 3: Guiding a Train of Discoveries: Charles Darwin, Charles Daubeny, and the Reception of Natural Selection, 1859-1865.- Chapter 4: Natural Selection as a Mere Auxiliary Hypothesis (sensu stricto I. Lakatos) in Charles Darwin's Origin of Species.- Chapter 5: Natural Selection in Ernst Haeckel’s Legacy.- Part III: Rethinking a So-Called Intermediary Period.- Chapter 6: The Origins of Theoretical Developmental Genetics: Reinterpreting William Bateson’s Role in the History of Evolutionary Thought.- Chapter 7: Recasting Natural Selection: Osborn and the Pluralistic View of Life .- Part IV: Other Evolutionary Syntheses.- Chapter 8: Little Evolution, BIG Evolution: Rethinking the History of Darwinism, Population Genetics, and the “Synthesis”.- Chapter 9: When Panpsychism Met Monism: Why Did the Philosopher Theodor Ziehen (1862-1950) Become a Crucial Figure for the Evolutionary Biologist Bernhard Rensch?.- Chapter 10: Inertia, Trend, and Momentum Reconsidered: G. G. Simpson, an Orthogeneticist?.- Chapter 11: The Concept of Natural Selection in Theodosius Dobzhansky. Its Development and Interpretation.- Part V: New Lights on Recent Developments.- Chapter 12: What’s Natural About Natural Selection?.- Chapter 13: Natural Selection, Morphoprocess and a Logical Field of Evolutionary Concepts.- Chapter 14: Natural Selection as Agent of Evolutionary Change: A View from Paleoanthropology.- Chapter 15: Darwinism Without Selection? A Lesson from Cultural Evolutionary Theory.- Part VI: Teaching Evolution.- Chapter 16: Beyond Survival of the Fittest – A Look at Students’ Misconceptions about Natural Selection and Evolutionary Theory.

Richard G. Delisle owns a PhD in paleoanthropology (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) and a PhD in philosophy (University of Montreal, Canada). He teaches evolutionary biology and history/philosophy of science in the programs of archaeology, philosophy, and liberal education at the University of Lethbridge (Canada). His research interest focuses on the multidisciplinary quest of understanding evolutionary studies under the intimate light of its past and current developments.

• Chapter 1:  Introduction: In Search of a New Paradigm for the Development of Evolutionary Biology.- Part I: Crossing Perspectives about Evolution: Historians versus Biologists.- Chapter 2: Cathedrals, Corals and Mycelia: Three Analogies for the History of Evolutionary Biology.- Part II: Different Views of Charles Darwin.- Chapter 3: Guiding a Train of Discoveries: Charles Darwin, Charles Daubeny, and the Reception of Natural Selection, 1859-1865.- Chapter 4: Natural Selection as a Mere Auxiliary Hypothesis (sensu stricto I. Lakatos) in Charles Darwin's Origin of Species.- Chapter 5: Natural Selection in Ernst Haeckel’s Legacy.- Part III: Rethinking a So-Called Intermediary Period.- Chapter 6: The Origins of Theoretical Developmental Genetics: Reinterpreting William Bateson’s Role in the History of Evolutionary Thought.- Chapter 7: Recasting Natural Selection: Osborn and the Pluralistic View of Life .- Part IV: Other Evolutionary Syntheses.- Chapter 8: Little Evolution, BIG Evolution: Rethinking the History of Darwinism, Population Genetics, and the “Synthesis”.- Chapter 9: When Panpsychism Met Monism: Why Did the Philosopher Theodor Ziehen (1862-1950) Become a Crucial Figure for the Evolutionary Biologist Bernhard Rensch?.- Chapter 10: Inertia, Trend, and Momentum Reconsidered: G. G. Simpson, an Orthogeneticist?.- Chapter 11: The Concept of Natural Selection in Theodosius Dobzhansky. Its Development and Interpretation.- Part V: New Lights on Recent Developments.- Chapter 12: What’s Natural About Natural Selection?.- Chapter 13: Natural Selection, Morphoprocess and a Logical Field of Evolutionary Concepts.- Chapter 14: Natural Selection as Agent of Evolutionary Change: A View from Paleoanthropology.- Chapter 15: Darwinism Without Selection? A Lesson from Cultural Evolutionary Theory.- Part VI: Teaching Evolution.- Chapter 16: Beyond Survival of the Fittest – A Look at Students’ Misconceptions about Natural Selection and Evolutionary Theory.

Richard G. Delisle owns a PhD in paleoanthropology (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) and a PhD in philosophy (University of Montreal, Canada). He teaches evolutionary biology and history/philosophy of science in the programs of archaeology, philosophy, and liberal education at the University of Lethbridge (Canada). His research interest focuses on the multidisciplinary quest of understanding evolutionary studies under the intimate light of its past and current developments.

• Chapter 1:  Introduction: In Search of a New Paradigm for the Development of Evolutionary Biology.- Part I: Crossing Perspectives about Evolution: Historians versus Biologists.- Chapter 2: Cathedrals, Corals and Mycelia: Three Analogies for the History of Evolutionary Biology.- Part II: Different Views of Charles Darwin.- Chapter 3: Guiding a Train of Discoveries: Charles Darwin, Charles Daubeny, and the Reception of Natural Selection, 1859-1865.- Chapter 4: Natural Selection as a Mere Auxiliary Hypothesis (sensu stricto I. Lakatos) in Charles Darwin's Origin of Species.- Chapter 5: Natural Selection in Ernst Haeckel’s Legacy.- Part III: Rethinking a So-Called Intermediary Period.- Chapter 6: The Origins of Theoretical Developmental Genetics: Reinterpreting William Bateson’s Role in the History of Evolutionary Thought.- Chapter 7: Recasting Natural Selection: Osborn and the Pluralistic View of Life .- Part IV: Other Evolutionary Syntheses.- Chapter 8: Little Evolution, BIG Evolution: Rethinking the History of Darwinism, Population Genetics, and the “Synthesis”.- Chapter 9: When Panpsychism Met Monism: Why Did the Philosopher Theodor Ziehen (1862-1950) Become a Crucial Figure for the Evolutionary Biologist Bernhard Rensch?.- Chapter 10: Inertia, Trend, and Momentum Reconsidered: G. G. Simpson, an Orthogeneticist?.- Chapter 11: The Concept of Natural Selection in Theodosius Dobzhansky. Its Development and Interpretation.- Part V: New Lights on Recent Developments.- Chapter 12: What’s Natural About Natural Selection?.- Chapter 13: Natural Selection, Morphoprocess and a Logical Field of Evolutionary Concepts.- Chapter 14: Natural Selection as Agent of Evolutionary Change: A View from Paleoanthropology.- Chapter 15: Darwinism Without Selection? A Lesson from Cultural Evolutionary Theory.- Part VI: Teaching Evolution.- Chapter 16: Beyond Survival of the Fittest – A Look at Students’ Misconceptions about Natural Selection and Evolutionary Theory.