Article ID: CBB000013721

The embryological origins of the gene theory (1978)

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Description “The original support for the gene theory of inheritance came largely from the studies of E. B. Wilson, Theodor Boveri, and Thomas Hunt Morgan. Each of these scientists began his career as an embryologist. In this paper, the emergence of the gene theory out of embryology will be seen in the context of these researchers' attempts to solve the problem of which cellular compartment--the nucleus or the cytoplasm--directed development.”


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Authors & Contributors
Baxter, Alice Levine
Maienschein, Jane A.
Allen, Garland E.
Boveri, Theodor
Deichmann, Ute
Forer, Arthur
Journals
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
American Zoologist
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Biology and Philosophy
Filosofia e História da Biologia
Journal of the History of Biology
Publishers
Yale University
Blackwell Wissenschafts-Verlag
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Fischer
Johns Hopkins University Press
Westdeutscher Verlag
Concepts
Genetics
Biology
Chromosomes
Embryology
Oncology
Mendelism; Mendelian inheritance
People
Wilson, Edmund Beecher
Boveri, Theodor
Morgan, Thomas Hunt
Bateson, William
Baur, Erwin
Boveri, Marcella O'Grady
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
21st century
Places
Germany
United States
Institutions
Rheinsche-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
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