Kull, Kalevi. “Mechanisms of evolution.” (2007).
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The course includes a review of major theories of evolution and their history, main paradigms of evolutionism, evolutionary mechanisms in human evolution and domestication of plants and animals, the methods of phylogeny reconstruction, contemporary debates in evolution research. The topics include the history and development of evolutionism, the appearence of Darwinism, the mechanism of natural selection, the differences between natural and sexual selection, organic selection (J.M.Baldwin), the problem of teleology (K.E.v.Baer and C.Darwin), nomogenesis (L.Berg, S.Meyen), mechanisms of speciation (E.Mayr, H.Paterson), dabates of S.J.Gould ja R.Dawkins, the role of communication and symbiosis in evolution, post-modern and post-darwinian evolutionism.