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Hardin, Garrett. 1959. Nature and Man's Fate. Mentor Book, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

In chapter 4, the idea of progress is compared to the process of evolution. The species concept is also described and important distinctions are raised on what it means to name a new species. The nature of what a scientific theory is, is delineated. And the idea that evolution is a chain is broken down. Also described is A. J. Lotka's concept of evolution as energy capture. The chapter finishes by asking whether we humans will take the rest of life with us into extinction. "Progress?"
I should also note that some of the language in this chapter is suspicious in that it may back-handedly emphasize hereditarian ideas of human origins...

The sources for chapter 4 as they are formatted in the book:
On the Idea of Progress:
Bury, J. B. 1920. The Idea of Progress. xv and 377 pp. London: Macmillan.
Condorcet, Antoine-Nicholas de. 1795, Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind. xvi and 202 pp. New York: The Noonday Press, 1955.
Teggart, Frederick J., (ed.) 1949. The Idea of Progress. xi and 457 pp. Berkley Calif.: Univ. of California Press.
Haldane:
Haldane, J. B. S. 1932. The Causes of Evolution. vii and 235 pp. N.Y.: Harper and Bros. n.d.
Darwin on the eye:
Darwin, Francis, ed. 1887. The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin. 2 vols. N.Y.: D. Appleton. 1898. (2: 67)
On the competitive exclusion principle:
Darwin, Charles. 1872. The Origin of Species. 6th ed. reprinted. xxxv and 557 pp. N.Y.: Macmillan, 1927. (114)
Lyell on shell collectors:
Marchant, James. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences. 2 vols. London: Cassel & Co. (2: 24)
The anonymous zoologist on taxonomy is Stresemann:
Goldschmidt, R. 1940. The Material Basis of Evolution. xi and 436 pp. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univ. Press. (156)
Vanderplank:
Patterson, J. T. and W. S. Stone. 1952. Evolution in the Genus Drosophila. 610 pp. N.Y.: Macmillan. (545)
Anableps:
Norman, J. R. 1931. A History of Fishes. 463 pp. N.Y.: Frederick A. Stokes. (296)
On the introduction of animals from one region to another:
Vos, Antoon de, Richard H. Manville and Richard G. van Gelder. 1956. Introduced mammals and their influence on native biota. Zoologica, 41: 163-194.
Von Haller:
Arber, Agnes. 1954. The Mind and the Eye. ix and 146 pp. Cambridge: University Press. (45)
"Conversations with John Cushing have been particularly helpful in developing this chapter."

0:00 Is Evolution Progress?
7:02 The Idea of Secular Change
14:42 Limitations of Darwinian Evolution
20:44 Speciation: An Answer to Environmental Complexity
35:09 Speciation: Possible Outcomes
40:05 The Competitive Exclusion Principle
44:28 The Nature of Theory
51:03 Extinction and the Exclusion Principle
54:01 What Is the Sense of Evolution?

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