“…Russian contributors For example, Levit et al (Levit, Simunek, & Hossfeld, 2008) and Reif et al (Reif, Junker, & Hossfeld, 2000) credit Erwin Baur (1875-1933, Walter Zimmermann (1892, Nikolai V. Timofeev-Ressovsky (1900 and Gerhard Heberer (1901 Huxley (1942) which fell rather short of synthesis, we have had the works of Mayr (1942) stemming from zoological and of Stebbins (1950) stemming from botanical systematics and genetics, of Simpson (1944, 89 These chapters have been expanded in the 1959 English edition, but there was no significant change in content, in particular in Rensch's view of the relation between evolution and development. I will rely on the 1959 English edition.…”