Daniele Rosa

Daniele Rosa (1857–1944) was an Italian invertebrate zoologist.^[1]

Picture of Italian biologist Daniele Rosa (1857-1944).

Biography

Rosa was born in Susa, Piedmont. He graduated from the University of Turin. He is most well known for his orthogenetic evolutionary theory known as hologenesis ("ologenesi" in Italian).^[1] His theory proposed that evolution is internally driven.^[2][3] Science historian Peter J. Bowler has noted that Rosa's theory of hologenesis was "ignored or dismissed by the supporters of the modern synthesis".^[4] His orthogenesis theory is considered to be discredited. However, Rosa contributed valuable research to the fields of biogeography and cladistics.^[1][5] His research influenced the biogeographer Léon Croizat.^[6]

Publications

• Ologenesi; Nuova Teoria dell'Evoluzione e della Distribuzione Geografica dei Viventi (1918)
• L'Ologénèse; Nouvelle Théorie de l'Évolution et de la Distribution Géographique des Êtres Vivants (Revised French translation) (1931)

See also

• Rosa's Rule

References

1. Luzzatto, Michele; Palestrini, Claudia; D'entrèves, Passerin Pietro. (2000). Hologenesis: The Last and Lost Theory of Evolutionary Change. Italian Journal of Zoology 67: 129-138.
2. Morrone, Juan J. (2009). Evolutionary Biogeography: An Integrative Approach with Case Studies. Columbia University Press. pp. 30-31. ISBN 978-0-231-14378-3
3. Thomas F. Glick, Elinor Shaffer. (2014). The Literary and Cultural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe. Bloomsbury. p. 514. ISBN 978-1-7809-3712-0
4. Bowler, Peter J. (1983). The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolutionary Theories in the Decades around 1900. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 255. ISBN 0-8018-2932-1
5. Griffiths, P. E. (1992). Trees of Life: Essays in Philosophy of Biology. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 78-79. ISBN 0-7923-1709-2
6. Williams, David M; Ebach, Malte C. (2008). Foundations of Systematics and Biogeography. Springer. pp. 88-89. ISBN 978-0-387-72728-8

Further reading

• Zunino, Mario. (2004). Rosa’s ‘‘Hologenesis’’ revisited Cladistics 20:212-214.