Louis_Vialleton

Louis Vialleton

Louis Vialleton

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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.[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

  1. [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. [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. [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. [4]
    Rabaud, Étienne. (1924) 'Transformisme et morphologie', Bulletin biologique de la France et de la Belgique 58: 321-329.
  5. [5]
    Numbers, Ronald L. (2006). The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design. Harvard University Press. p. 146. ISBN 0-674-02339-0
  6. [6]
    Lustig, Abigail; Richards, Robert J.; Ruse, Michael. (2004). Darwinian Heresies. Cambridge University Press. p. 85. ISBN 0-521-81516-9
  7. [7]
    Davies, Morley A. (1937). Evolution And Its Modern Critics. London: Thomas Murby & Co.
  8. [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. [9]
    Minot, Charles S. (1908). Un Problème de l'Évolution. Science 28: 122-123.
  10. [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. [11]
    "Morphologie générale Membres et ceintures des vertébrés tétrapodes: Critique morphotogique du transformisme". Nature. 114 (2878): 928. 1924. doi:10.1038/114928a0.
  12. [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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