Daniele Rosa (1857–1944) was an Italian invertebrate zoologist.[1]
Biography edit
Rosa was born in Susa, Piedmont. He graduated from the University of Turin. He is most well known for his orthogenetic evolutionary theory known as hologenesis ("ologenesi" in Italian).[1] His theory proposed that evolution is internally driven.[2][3] Science historian Peter J. Bowler has noted that Rosa's theory of hologenesis was "ignored or dismissed by the supporters of the modern synthesis".[4] His orthogenesis theory is considered to be discredited. However, Rosa contributed valuable research to the fields of biogeography and cladistics.[1][5] His research influenced the biogeographer Léon Croizat.[6]
Publications edit
- Ologenesi; Nuova Teoria dell'Evoluzione e della Distribuzione Geografica dei Viventi (1918)
- L'Ologénèse; Nouvelle Théorie de l'Évolution et de la Distribution Géographique des Êtres Vivants (Revised French translation) (1931)
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b c Luzzatto, Michele; Palestrini, Claudia; D'entrèves, Passerin Pietro. (2000). Hologenesis: The Last and Lost Theory of Evolutionary Change. Italian Journal of Zoology 67: 129-138.
- ^ Morrone, Juan J. (2009). Evolutionary Biogeography: An Integrative Approach with Case Studies. Columbia University Press. pp. 30-31. ISBN 978-0-231-14378-3
- ^ Thomas F. Glick, Elinor Shaffer. (2014). The Literary and Cultural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe. Bloomsbury. p. 514. ISBN 978-1-7809-3712-0
- ^ Bowler, Peter J. (1983). The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolutionary Theories in the Decades around 1900. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 255. ISBN 0-8018-2932-1
- ^ Griffiths, P. E. (1992). Trees of Life: Essays in Philosophy of Biology. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 78-79. ISBN 0-7923-1709-2
- ^ Williams, David M; Ebach, Malte C. (2008). Foundations of Systematics and Biogeography. Springer. pp. 88-89. ISBN 978-0-387-72728-8
Further reading edit
- Zunino, Mario. (2004). Rosa’s ‘‘Hologenesis’’ revisited Cladistics 20:212-214.