Daniele Rosa (1857–1944) was an Italian invertebrate zoologist.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.
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). His theory proposed that evolution is internally driven.Morrone, Juan J. (2009). Evolutionary Biogeography: An Integrative Approach with Case Studies. Columbia University Press. pp. 30-31. Thomas F. Glick, Elinor Shaffer. (2014). The Literary and Cultural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe. Bloomsbury. p. 514. Science historian Peter J. Bowler has noted that Rosa's theory of hologenesis was "ignored or dismissed by the supporters of the modern synthesis".Bowler, Peter J. (1983). The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolutionary Theories in the Decades around 1900. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 255. His orthogenesis theory is considered to be discredited. However, Rosa contributed valuable research to the fields of biogeography and cladistics.Griffiths, P. E. (1992). Trees of Life: Essays in Philosophy of Biology. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 78-79. His research influenced the biogeographer Léon Croizat.Williams, David M; Ebach, Malte C. (2008). Foundations of Systematics and Biogeography. Springer. pp. 88-89.
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
Further reading Zunino, Mario. (2004). Rosa’s ‘‘Hologenesis’’ revisited Cladistics 20:212-214.