Bibliographical Note
- For the development of Lamarck's ideas in France and Germany one might see Jaynes (e.g. Anim. Behav., 17: 601–606) and for that in Russia Mikulinsky's book (URSS Acad. Sci., Moscow, 1961). The general lack of acceptance of Darwin's views has been especially discussed by Ghiselin (e.g. The economy of nature and the evolution of sex, U.C. Press, 1974).
- Waddington is particularly well known for his books on morphogenetics, such as The strategy of the genes and New patterns in genetics and development, and for having edited the series of symposia Towards a theoretical biology. Among his many papers Genetic Assimilation (Adv. Genet., 12: 257–293, 1961) is particularly interesting for the factural and historical information and A catastrophe theory of evolution (Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci., 231: 32–42) for the general theoretical implications. He has recently reprinted some of his papers on all kinds of problems in evolution in The evolution of an Evolutionist (Cornell). Most of his futurology work is still unpublished at the time I am writing.
- Formalizations and extensions of Waddington's views are presented, for instance, in Thom's Modèle mathématiques de la morphogénèse (Union Generale, Paris, 1974) and in Piaget's Adaptation vitale et psychologie de l'intelligence (Hermann, Paris, 1974). For analogous reasonings at the molecular level one might see Ratner's Genetic Language (Prog. Theor. Biol., 3: 143–228, 1974). The many failures of the « sinthetic theory » are particularly well discused by Williams (Sex and evolution, Princeton, 1974) and Lewontin (The genetic basis of evolutionary change, Columbia, 1974).