Two Historical Investigations in Evolutionary Biology

University of Minnesota M.S. thesis.Ocyober 2015. Major: Ecology, Evolution and Behavior. Advisor: Emilie Snell-Rood. 1 computer file (PDF); 166 pages.This work concerns two episodes in the history of evolutionary studies: in the first place, the early research program of Stephen Jay Gould, and in the second place, the fallout of “Mivart’s dilemma” (a famous criticism of natural selection formulated by the Victorian evolutionist St. George Jackson Mivart