Orthogenesis versus Darwinism

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Sources. Formation of the Concept of Directed Evolution in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 3 Evolutionary Biology at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. New Concepts of Directed Evolution in the 1900–1930s

Chapter 4 Declarations in Favour of Orthogenesis in the 1900–1930s

Chapter 5 Orthogenesis and the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis

Chapter 7 Statements in Support of Orthogenesis in the 1950s and Later

Chapter 8 “Laws” in Biology

Chapter 9 Species Senescence

Chapter 10 Adaptation or Non-adaptation?

Chapter 11 Anticipation, Parallelisms and Convergences

Chapter 12 Constraints on Variation

Chapter 13 Direct Impact of the Environment on Evolution and the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics

Chapter 14 Mystics or Unrealised Synthesis?

Chapter 15 Conclusion