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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. Vialleton rejected any form of continuous evolution and favoured saltationism.

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). Zoologist Étienne Rabaud responded with a critical article.

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. However, he did not reject evolution. He was also incorrectly described as a critic of evolution by A. Morley Davies.

Vialleton was a vitalist.

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)
  • Éléments de Morphologie des Vertébrés Anatomie et Embryologie Comparées, Paléontologie et Classification (1911)
  • Membres et ceintures des Vertébrés Tétrapodes: Critique morphologique du transformisme (1924)
  • Morphologie générale Membres et ceintures des vertébrés tétrapodes: Critique morphotogique du transformisme (1924)
  • Le Transformisme (1927)
  • L'origine Des Etres Vivants, L'illusion Transformiste (1929)

See also

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. 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
  3. ^ 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
  4. Rabaud, Étienne. (1924) 'Transformisme et morphologie', Bulletin biologique de la France et de la Belgique 58: 321-329.
  5. Numbers, Ronald L. (2006). The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design. Harvard University Press. p. 146. ISBN 0-674-02339-0
  6. Lustig, Abigail; Richards, Robert J.; Ruse, Michael. (2004). Darwinian Heresies. Cambridge University Press. p. 85. ISBN 0-521-81516-9
  7. Davies, Morley A. (1937). Evolution And Its Modern Critics. London: Thomas Murby & Co.
  8. Normandin, Sebastian; Wolfe, Charles T. (2013). Vitalism and the Scientific Image in Post-Enlightenment Life Science, 1800-2010. p. 247. Springer. ISBN 978-9400724440
  9. Minot, Charles S. (1908). Un Problème de l'Évolution. Science 28: 122-123.
  10. "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.
  11. "Morphologie générale Membres et ceintures des vertébrés tétrapodes: Critique morphotogique du transformisme". Nature. 114 (2878): 928. 1924. doi:10.1038/114928a0.
  12. 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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