1: Approaching Complexity: Thinking About Evolution 2: Genes and the Evolutionary Synthesis 3: Systematics, Paleontology, and the Modern Synthesis 4: The Structure and Content of the Modern Synthesis 5: Toward Hierarchy: Trends and Tensions in Evolutionary Theory 6: The Evolutionary Hierarchies 7: Hierarchic Interactions: The Evolutionary Process References Index

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