Louis Marius Vialleton (December 22, 1859 - December 18, 1929) was a French zoologist and writer, best known for his advocation of non-Darwinian evolution.
Career
Vialleton was born in Vienne, Isère. He was the first professor of histology in the faculty of medicine at the University of Montpellier. [1] Vialleton rejected any form of continuous evolution and favoured saltationism. [2]
Vialleton attempted to refute gradual transformism from a morphological perspective in his work Morphologie générale Membres et ceintures des vertébrés tétrapodes: Critique morphotogique du transformisme (1924). [3] Zoologist Étienne Rabaud responded with a critical article. [3] [4]
He contributed the chapter Morphologie et transformisme to the book Le Transformisme (1927). Vialleton's views were often misrepresented by creationists as anti-evolutionary. His writings were influential to creationists such as Douglas Dewar. [5] However, he did not reject evolution. [6] He was also incorrectly described as a critic of evolution by A. Morley Davies. [7]
Vialleton was a vitalist. [1] [8]
Publications
- Un monstre double humain du genre Ectopage (1892)
- Un Problème de l'Évolution: La Théorie de la Récapitulation des Formes Ancestrales au Cours du Développement Embryonnaire (Loi Biogénétique Fondamentale de Haeckel) (1908) [9]
- Éléments de Morphologie des Vertébrés Anatomie et Embryologie Comparées, Paléontologie et Classification (1911) [10]
- Membres et ceintures des Vertébrés Tétrapodes: Critique morphologique du transformisme (1924)
- Morphologie générale Membres et ceintures des vertébrés tétrapodes: Critique morphotogique du transformisme (1924) [11] [12]
- Le Transformisme (1927) [with Élie Gagnebin, Lucien Cuénot, William Robin Thompson, Roland Dalbiez]
- L'origine Des Etres Vivants, L'illusion Transformiste (1929)
See also
References
- ^ a b Lavabre-Bertrand T. (2015). Louis Vialleton (1859-1929) was the first Professor of Histology in the Faculty of medicine of Montpellier. Rev Hist Pharm (Paris) 62 (385): 109-123.
- ^ Bowler, Peter J. (2001). Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain. University of Chicago Press. p. 396 ISBN 0-226-06858-7
- ^ a b Engels, Eve-Marie; Glick, Thomas F. (2008). The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe, Volume 1. Continuum. pp. 341-242. ISBN 978-0-8264-5833-9
- ^ Rabaud, Étienne. (1924) 'Transformisme et morphologie', Bulletin biologique de la France et de la Belgique 58: 321-329.
- ^ Numbers, Ronald L. (2006). The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design. Harvard University Press. p. 146. ISBN 0-674-02339-0
- ^ Lustig, Abigail; Richards, Robert J.; Ruse, Michael. (2004). Darwinian Heresies. Cambridge University Press. p. 85. ISBN 0-521-81516-9
- ^ Davies, Morley A. (1937). Evolution And Its Modern Critics. London: Thomas Murby & Co.
- ^ Normandin, Sebastian; Wolfe, Charles T. (2013). Vitalism and the Scientific Image in Post-Enlightenment Life Science, 1800-2010. p. 247. Springer. ISBN 978-9400724440
- ^ Minot, Charles S. (1908). Un Problème de l'Évolution. Science 28: 122-123.
- ^ "Éléments de Morphologie des Vertébrés Anatomie et Embryologie Comparées, Paléontologie et Classification". Nature. 87 (2187): 412–413. 1911. doi: 10.1038/087412a0. hdl: 2027/uc1.b2939427.
- ^ "Morphologie générale Membres et ceintures des vertébrés tétrapodes: Critique morphotogique du transformisme". Nature. 114 (2878): 928. 1924. doi: 10.1038/114928a0.
- ^ L. Guinet. (1924). Morphologie generale; Membres et ceintures des vertebres tetrapodes; Critique morphologique du transformisme. Vialleton, Louis. Isis 6 (3): 435-437.
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