Chapter ID: CBB000774728

Sex Ratio Theory, Ancient and Modern: An Eighteenth-Century Debate about Intelligent Design and the Development of Models in Evolutionary Biology (2007)

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Description Discusses both 18th-century and contemporary debates dealing with sex ratios, chance, and design.


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Authors & Contributors
Wynn, James
Valles, Sean A.
Carvalho, Tito Brige de
Alves Diniz, Marcio
Wilson, Emily K.
Wade, Michael J.
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Biology and Philosophy
Journal of the History of Biology
British Journal for the History of Mathematics
Science and Education
Perspectives on Science
Publishers
University of Maryland, College Park
Wiley-Blackwell
Harvard University Press
Cambridge University Press
Indiana University
Concepts
Evolution
Population genetics
Heredity
Biology
Probability and statistics
Reproduction
People
Darwin, Charles Robert
Pearson, Karl
Galton, Francis
Dobzhansky, Theodosius
Weldon, Walter Frank Raphael
Weismann, August
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
18th century
17th century
20th century, late
Places
São Paulo (Brazil)
United States
France
Institutions
University of São Paolo
Carnegie Institution of Washington
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