The Evolution of Theodosius Dobzhansky (eBook)

Essays on His Life and Thought in Russia and America

Mark B. Adams (Herausgeber)

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2014
262 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6380-8 (ISBN)

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This volume not only offers an intellectual biography of one of the most important biologists and social thinkers of the twentieth century but also illuminates the development of evolutionary studies in Russia and in the West. Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900-1975), a creator of the "evolutionary synthesis" and the author of its first modern statement, Genetics and the Origin of Species (1937), founded modern Western population genetics and wrote many popular books on such topics as human evolution, race and racism, equality, and human destiny. In this, the first book devoted to an analysis of the historical, scientific, and cultural dimensions of Dobzhansky's life and thought, an international group of historians, biologists, and philosophers addresses the full span of his career in Russia and the United States.Beginning with the reminiscences of his daughter, Sophia Dobzhansky Coe, these essays cover Dobzhansky's Russian roots (Nikolai L. Krementsov, Daniel A. Alexandrov, Mikhail B. Konashev), the Morgan Lab (Garland E. Allen, William B. Provine, Robert E. Kohler, Richard M. Burian), his scientific legacy (Scott F. Gilbert, Bruce Wallace, Charles E. Taylor), and his social, political, philosophical, and religious thought (Costas B. Krimbas, John Beatty, Diane B. Paul, Michael Ruse).Originally published in 1994.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Zusatzinfo: 11 halftones
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: abiogenesis • Adaptationism • Alfred Sturtevant • allopatric speciation • biologist • Biology • Calvin Bridges • Central Asia • Charles Darwin • chromosome • C. H. Waddington • Cladogenesis • Cyril Burt • Darwinism • dichotomy • Drosophila • Drosophila pseudoobscura • Embryology • Entomology • Ernst Haeckel • Ernst Mayr • Eugenics • Evolution • evolutionary biology • Evolutionary developmental biology • Evolutionary progress • Evolution in Mendelian Populations • Evolutionism • Evolution of dominance • founder effect • Franz Boas • frederick osborn • Garland E. Allen • Gene • Gene Pool • genetic assimilation • genetic diversity • geneticist • Genetics • Genetics and the Origin of Species • genetic variability • genetic variation • Genotype • Genus • George Romanes • Herbert Spencer Jennings • hereditarianism • heredity • Heritability • Human • Jan Sapp • J. B. S. Haldane • Julian Huxley • lamarckism • Lecture • Leon Kamin • Linus Pauling • Loren Graham • Lysenkoism • macroevolution • Mendelian Inheritance • microevolution • Modern evolutionary synthesis • Moral Economy • Morphogen • Morphogenesis • mutagen • Mutation • Natural selection • Nikolai Vavilov • Objections to evolution • On the Origin of Species • organism • parasitism • Paul Tillich • Phenotype • Physiology • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin • Point mutation • Polygene • Population • Population Genetics • Recapitulation theory • Research Program • Richard Goldschmidt • Richard Lewontin • Ronald Fisher • Russian culture • Scientist • Sergei Chetverikov • Sewall Wright • Speciation • species • Stalinism • Stephen Jay Gould • Superiority (short story) • Theodosius Dobzhansky • The Phenomenon of Man • Thomas Hunt Morgan • Zoology
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6380-5 / 1400863805
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6380-8 / 9781400863808