Book ID: CBB000029912

The evolution of Theodosius Dobzhansky: Essays on his life and thought in Russia and America (1994)

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Princeton University Press


Publication Date: 1994
Edition Details: Adams, Mark B., editor.
Physical Details: xi + 249 pp.; illus.; notes

Description Contents: Adams, Mark B.: Introduction: Theodosius Dobzhansky in Russia and America. Coe, Sophia Dobzhansky: Theodosius Dobzhansky: A family story. Krementsov, Nikolai L.: Dobzhansky and Russian entomology: The origins of his ideas on species and speciation. Alexandrov, Daniel A.: Filipchenko and Dobzhansky: Issues in evolutionary genetics in the 1920s. Konashev, Mikhail B.: From the archives: Dobzhansky in Kiev and Leningrad. Allen, Garland E.: Theodosius Dobzhansky, the Morgan Lab, and the breakdown of the naturalist/experimentalist dichotomy, 1927-1947. Provine, William B.: The origin of Dobzhansky's Genetics and the origin of species. Kohler, Robert E.: Fly room west: Dobzhansky, D. pseudoobscura, and scientific practice. Burian, Richard M.: Dobzhansky on evolutionary dynamics: Some questions about his Russian background. Gilbert, Scott F.: Dobzhansky, Waddington, and Schmalhausen: Embryology and the modern synthesis. Wallace, Bruce: Theodosius Dobzhansky remembered: Genetic coadaptation. Taylor, Charles E.: Dobzhansky, artificial life, and the “larger questions” of evolution. Krimbas, Costas B.: The evolutionary worldview of Theodosius Dobzhansky. Beatty, John: Dobzhansky and the biology of democracy: The moral and political significance of genetic variation. Paul, Diane B.: Dobzhansky in the “nature-nurture” debate. Ruse, Michael: Dobzhansky and the problem of progress.


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Authors & Contributors
Smocovitis, Vassiliki Betty
Konashev, Mikhail B.
Delisle, Richard G.
Carvalho, Tito Brige de
Pereira Martins, Lilian Al-Chueyr
Souza, Vanderlei Sebastião de
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Journal of the History of Biology
Biology and Philosophy
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Social Epistemology
Publishers
American Philosophical Society
Concepts
Evolution
Genetics
Biology
Darwinism
Modern Synthesis (biology)
Experiments and experimentation
People
Dobzhansky, Theodosius
Stebbins, George Ledyard
Mayr, Ernst
Rensch, Bernhard Carl Emmanuel
Huxley, Julian Sorell
Fisher, Ronald Aylmer
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Brazil
São Paulo (Brazil)
Ukraine
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Institutions
University of São Paolo
Rockefeller Foundation
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