CONICET - Facultad de Filosofia y Letras de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Espinosa 423 108, C.P 1405, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Hist Philos Life Sci. 2012;34(4):539-59.
This article focuses on the relationship between microevolution and macroevolution. The main purpose is to argue that up to the present time in the consolidation of the evolutionary synthesis macroevolution has been always conceived as dependent on microevolution. Such dependence was very clear in the synthesis, but seems to have been left aside by later authors. Nevertheless, we show that the criticisms of the synthesis since the decade of the 1970s did not modify that general trend: the new perspectives reproduced the dependence of macroevolution on microevolution by means of strategies different than those appealed to by the traditional synthesis.
本文主要关注微观进化和宏观进化之间的关系。主要目的是论证，到目前为止，在进化综合理论的巩固过程中，宏观进化一直被认为是依赖于微观进化的。这种依赖性在综合理论中非常明显，但后来的作者似乎已经将其搁置一旁。然而，我们表明，自 20 世纪 70 年代以来对综合理论的批评并没有改变这种总体趋势：新观点通过与传统综合理论不同的策略来复制宏观进化对微观进化的依赖。
