Name
Title | ||
|---|---|---|
Adolf Remane (1898–1976) and his views on systematics, homology and the Modern Synthesis |
Abstract | ||
|---|---|---|
Adolf Remane was primarily a morphologist and systematist. In 1952, he published an influential book on the foundations of
systematics and phylogenetics in which he advocated homology as the central concept of morphology and the basis of the natural
system and discussed criteria serving to discriminate homology from homoplasy in great detail. During the decades when the
Modern Synthesis of evolution was created, he repeatedly commented on and criticised the synthetic theory of evolution, which
he never fully accepted. Remane disapproved of idealistic morphology and was strongly opposed to Lamarckian, saltationist
and orthogenetic theories of evolution. Yet, while appreciating the synthetic theory's validity in the realm of speciation
and microevolution, he rejected the claim that the current genetic knowledge was sufficient to explain complex morphological
transformations on the basis of random mutations and selection. Instead, he seems to have favoured mutation pressure as the
most important factor in macroevolution. Nevertheless, the sometimes vicious disputes between Remane and the adherents of
the Modern Synthesis may at least partly have been brought about by personal factors rather than by scientific differences. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2006 | 10.1016/j.thbio.2005.09.006 | Theory in Biosciences |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Natural system,Phylogenetics,Homology,Synthetic theory of evolution | Modern evolutionary synthesis,Biological evolution,Systematics,Realm,Biology,Zoology,Macroevolution,Genetics,Microevolution | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
124 | 3 | Theory in Biosciences |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 1 |
Authors | ||
2 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frank E. Zachos | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Uwe Hoßfeld | 2 | 54 | 17.47 |