Article ID: CBB000045884

The battling botanist: Daniel Trembly MacDougal, mutation theory, and the rise of experimental evolutionary biology in America, 1900-1912 (1991)

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Description “My first goal is to investigate how [Hugo] de Vries's mutation theory gave the experimental biologist scientific authority in a particular institutional and national context ... I shall discuss the use of the mutation theory from the perspective of a botanist working at a privately funded research laboratory, the Carnegie Institution of Washington's laboratory for plant physiology near Tuscon, Arizona. Daniel Trembly MacDougal (1865-1958) was a physiological ecologist who has been accorded a minor role in histories of evolutionary biology. However, he was an eminent botanist, a vigorous agitator for the cause of experimentalism, and among the first to begin experiments in 1902 to validate de Vries's theory.”


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Authors & Contributors
Smocovitis, Vassiliki Betty
Gliboff, Sander Joel
Zeller, Suzanne E.
Santesmases, María Jesús
Richards, Richard A.
Perru, Olivier
Concepts
Plant evolution
Plants
Evolution
Botany
Cytogenetics
Plant genetics
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
16th century
Places
Spain
Australia
Institutions
University of Sydney
Carnegie Institution of Washington
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