Otto Schindewolf
Otto Schindewolf | |
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Born | 7 June 1896 |
Died | 10 June 1971 | (aged 75)
Nationality | German |
Known for | evolution of corals and cephalopods |
Scientific career | |
Fields | paleontology |
Institutions | University of Marburg University of Tübingen |
Otto Heinrich Schindewolf (7 June 1896 – 10 June 1971) was a German
Biography
Schindewolf was on the faculty at the University of Marburg from 1919 until 1927. Then he became director of the Geological Survey of Berlin. In 1948 he became a professor at the University of Tübingen, where he retired as professor emeritus in 1964.[2]
He was a
Evolution
As a saltationist Schindewolf had supported
Part of his "typostrophism" (German: Typostrophe) theory advocated sudden evolutionary change by macromutations but he later dropped this view. His theory of orthogenesis (guided, straight-line evolution) and eventual decay went through three stages (typogenesis [explosion of new types], typostasis [maintenance of types], and typolysis [splitting of types, degeneration]) claimed to be embedded within a cyclical view of the
His book Basic Questions in Paleontology was published in German in 1950 and was translated into English in 1993 with a foreword written by Stephen Jay Gould.
Bibliography
(incomplete)
- (in German) Wenz W. (1938–1944) Teil 1: Allgemeiner Teil und Prosobranchia. In: Schindewolf O. H. (ed.) Handbuch der Paläozoologie, Band 6, Gastropoda, Verlag Gebrüder Bornträger, Berlin, xii + 1639 pp.
His Basic Questions in Paleontology was published in German in 1950, and was a landmark work in the field of paleontology and evolution.
References
- ^ International Palaeontological Union (I.P.U.) (1968). Westermann, G.E.G. (ed.). Directory of Palaeontologists of the World (excl. Soviet Union & continental China) (2 ed.). Hamilton, Ontario: McMaster University. p. 101. Retrieved 2 January 2017 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology 11/2006
- ISBN 978-0822961512
- ^ William A. Dimichele. (1995). Basic Questions in Paleontology: Geologic Time, Organic Evolution, and Biological Systematics, by Otto H. Schindewolf[permanent dead link]. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 84. 481–483.
- ^ a b Levit, Georgy S.; Olsson, Lennart (2006). "'Evolution on Rails' : Mechanisms and Levels of Orthogenesis" (PDF). Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology (11): 99–138.
- ISBN 978-0691113258
- ISBN 978-0521174640
- ^ Otto Schindewolf. (1969). Über den “Typus” in morphologischer und phylogenetischer Biologie. Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur.
External links
- Otto Schindewolf in the German National Library catalogue
- (17 December 1938). "Handbuch der Paläozoologie". Nature 142: 1057 – review of the book.