Article ID: CBB000044374

Unifying biology: The evolutionary synthesis and evolutionary biology (1992)

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Description “Close examination of the unification of biology also sheds light on a central problem of the history of biology--namely, the evolutionary synthesis. In discussing the synthesis, I will focus on three features: the unification of biology through the articulation of Theodosius Dobzhansky's evolutionary genetics framework, the consequent binding of the heterogeneous practices of biology, and the publication of Julian Huxley's Evolution: The modern synthesis. The central argument I will make is that the evolutionary synthesis signaled the unification of the biological sciences.”


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Authors & Contributors
Swetlitz, Marc
Carvalho, Tito Brige de
Pereira Martins, Lilian Al-Chueyr
Waters, C. Kenneth
Van Helden, Albert
Sommer, Marianne
Journals
Journal of the History of Biology
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
Science, Technology and Human Values
Perspectives on Science
History of Science
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Rice Univ. Press
Princeton University Press
Macmillan
University of Chicago
Concepts
Evolution
Modern Synthesis (biology)
Darwinism
Biographies
Science and politics
Genetics
People
Huxley, Julian Sorell
Dobzhansky, Theodosius
Stebbins, George Ledyard
Simpson, George Gaylord
Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson
Hogben, Lancelot Thomas
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
Places
Great Britain
São Paulo (Brazil)
England
United States
Soviet Union
Institutions
University of São Paolo
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