Daniele Rosa (1857–1944) was an Italian invertebrate zoologist.[1]
Biography
editRosa 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
editReferences
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.