Nomogenesis, or Evolution Determined by Law
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1969. First printing thus. Full blue cloth, in publisher's glassine. Fine in near fine, lightly edge worn and spine-toned glassine jacket, in mylar cover. Item #235924
Lev Berg’s Nomogenesis presents a rigorous, contrarian challenge to Darwinian theories of evolution, proposing that biological change follows internal, law-bound pathways rather than being shaped by random variation and natural selection. Writing from early Soviet Russia, Berg also rejected Lamarckian inheritance of acquired traits, arguing instead for "mass mutations"—large, coordinated changes within species constrained by internal physiology. Bridging typological biology and structuralist thought, Nomogenesis occupies a unique third position in the history of evolutionary theory.
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