The Evolution Of Theodosius Dobzhansky

Author : Mark B. Adams
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400863808

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The Evolution of Theodosius Dobzhansky by Mark B. Adams Pdf

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.

Author : Theodosius Dobzhansky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:927778765

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Genetics and the Origin of Species by Theodosius Dobzhansky Pdf

Author : Theodosius Dobzhansky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UCAL:$B651884

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Mankind Evolving by Theodosius Dobzhansky Pdf

Examines both the biological and the cultural aspects of human evolution.

Author : Theodosius Dobzhansky
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Science
ISBN : 0231054750

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Genetics and the Origin of Species by Theodosius Dobzhansky Pdf

Featuring an introduction by Stephen Jay Gould, "Genetics and the Origin of Species" presents the first edition of Dobzhansky's groundbreaking and now classic inquiry into what has emerged as the most important single area of scientific inquiry in the twentieth century: biological theory of evolution. Genetics and the Origin of Species went through three editions (1937, 1941, and 1951) in which the importance accorded natural selection changed radically.

Author : Theodosius Dobzhansky,Theodosius Grigorievich Dobzhansky,Professor Theodosius Dobzhansky,Francisco José Ayala,George Ledyard Stebbins,James W. Valentine
Publisher : W H Freeman & Company
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Évolution
ISBN : 0716705729

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Evolution by Theodosius Dobzhansky,Theodosius Grigorievich Dobzhansky,Professor Theodosius Dobzhansky,Francisco José Ayala,George Ledyard Stebbins,James W. Valentine Pdf

Looks at the nature of evolution, the genetic structure of populations, hereditary variation, natural selection, and the relationship between populations, races, and species

Author : Max K. Hecht
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461595854

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Essays in Evolution and Genetics in Honor of Theodosius Dobzhansky by Max K. Hecht Pdf

It is not often that one has the opportunity to send a public birthday greet ing to a friend and colleague of many years, and to congratulate him on having reached the age of reason. In fact it happens only once, and comes then as a surprise. Surely it was only a few years ago that we sat together at an International Genetics Congress in Ithaca, and only yesterday that we became members of the same department. The eighth floor of Schermerhorn Hall had a north end where the flies were and a south end furnished with mice, and in between, a seminar room and laboratory. There the distances were short and the doors open and the coffee pot busy. But it now appears that yesterday has fallen thirty years behind and that we have grown up. I find it interesting and appropriate that Dobzhansky's lifetime spans the period of maturation of the fields to which this volume is devoted. This is true in a chronological sense for his birth occurred in the same year, 1900, in which modern genetics began. The rediscovery of Mendel's princi ples and the interpretation of the nature of heredity and variation to which this event led were necessary prerequisites to the development of evolution ary biology as presented in this collection of essays.

Author : Theodosius Dobzhansky,Richard C. Lewontin,John A. Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Science
ISBN : 0231131232

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Dobzhansky's Genetics of Natural Populations I-XLIII by Theodosius Dobzhansky,Richard C. Lewontin,John A. Moore Pdf

A reproduction of the forty-three articles that make up "The Genetics of Natural Populations" series, perhaps the most important single corpus in modern evolutionary genetics.

Author : Francisco Jos_ Ayala,Walter M. Fitch
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Evolution (Biology)
ISBN : 9780309058773

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Genetics and the Origin of Species by Francisco Jos_ Ayala,Walter M. Fitch Pdf

Author : Theodosius Dobzhansky,Max K. Hecht,William C. Steere
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781468480948

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Evolutionary Biology by Theodosius Dobzhansky,Max K. Hecht,William C. Steere Pdf

1 On Some Fundamental Concepts of Darwinian Biology.- Vitalism, Mechanism, and Compositionism.- Adaptedness and Adaptation.- Adaptedness to Survive and to Reproduce.- Adaptability.- Evolutionary Plasticity.- The Problem of Quantification of Adaptedness.- Darwinian Fitness.- Varieties of Natural Selection.- Darwinian Fitness and Adaptedness.- Evolutionary Opportunism and Adaptive Radiation.- Progressive Evolution.- References.- 2 Cave Ecology and the Evolution of Troglobites.- Animal Life in Caves.- The Cave Ecosystem.- Regressive Evolution in Cave Animals.- Speciation and Adaptation in Troglob.

Author : Erik Svensson,Ryan Calsbeek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199595372

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The Adaptive Landscape in Evolutionary Biology by Erik Svensson,Ryan Calsbeek Pdf

The 'Adaptive Landscape' has been a central concept in population genetics and evolutionary biology since this powerful metaphor was first formulated in 1932. This volume brings together historians of science, philosophers, ecologists, and evolutionary biologists, to discuss the state of the art from several different perspectives.

Author : Richard G. Delisle
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030655365

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Natural Selection by Richard G. Delisle Pdf

This book contests the general view that natural selection constitutes the explanatory core of evolutionary biology. It invites the reader to consider an alternative view which favors a more complete and multidimensional interpretation. It is common to present the 1930-1960 period as characterized by the rise of the Modern Synthesis, an event structured around two main explanatory commitments: (1) Gradual evolution is explained by small genetic changes (variations) oriented by natural selection, a process leading to adaptation; (2) Evolutionary trends and speciational events are macroevolutionary phenomena that can be accounted for solely in terms of the extension of processes and mechanisms occurring at the previous microevolutionary level. On this view, natural selection holds a central explanatory role in evolutionary theory - one that presumably reaches back to Charles Darwin's Origin of Species - a view also accompanied by the belief that the field of evolutionary biology is organized around a profound divide: theories relying on strong selective factors and those appealing only to weak ones. If one reads the new analyses presented in this volume by biologists, historians and philosophers, this divide seems to be collapsing at a rapid pace, opening an era dedicated to the search for a new paradigm for the development of evolutionary biology. Contrary to popular belief, scholars' position on natural selection is not in itself a significant discriminatory factor between most evolutionists. In fact, the intellectual space is quite limited, if not non-existent, between, on the one hand, "Darwinists", who play down the central role of natural selection in evolutionary explanations, and, on the other hand, "non-Darwinists", who use it in a list of other evolutionary mechanisms. The "mechanism-centered" approach to evolutionary biology is too incomplete to fully make sense of its development. In this book the labels created under the traditional historiography - "Darwinian Revolution", "Eclipse of Darwinism", "Modern Synthesis", "Post-Synthetic Developments" - are thus re-evaluated. This book will not only appeal to researchers working in evolutionary biology, but also to historians and philosophers."

Author : Daniel Kennefick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691217154

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No Shadow of a Doubt by Daniel Kennefick Pdf

On their 100th anniversary, the story of the extraordinary scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativity In 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein's revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the century's most celebrated scientific experiment. The result ushered in a new era and made Einstein a global celebrity by confirming his dramatic prediction that the path of light rays would be bent by gravity. Today, Einstein's theory is scientific fact. Yet the effort to weigh light by measuring the gravitational deflection of starlight during the May 29, 1919, solar eclipse has become clouded by myth and skepticism. Could Arthur Eddington and Frank Dyson have gotten the results they claimed? Did the pacifist Eddington falsify evidence to foster peace after a horrific war by validating the theory of a German antiwar campaigner? In No Shadow of a Doubt, Daniel Kennefick provides definitive answers by offering the most comprehensive and authoritative account of how expedition scientists overcame war, bad weather, and equipment problems to make the experiment a triumphant success. The reader follows Eddington on his voyage to Africa through his letters home, and delves with Dyson into how the complex experiment was accomplished, through his notes. Other characters include Howard Grubb, the brilliant Irishman who made the instruments; William Campbell, the American astronomer who confirmed the result; and Erwin Findlay-Freundlich, the German whose attempts to perform the test in Crimea were foiled by clouds and his arrest. By chronicling the expeditions and their enormous impact in greater detail than ever before, No Shadow of a Doubt reveals a story that is even richer and more exciting than previously known.

Author : Richard Burian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521545285

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The Epistemology of Development, Evolution, and Genetics by Richard Burian Pdf

These essays examine the developments in three fundamental biological disciplines--embryology, evolutionary biology, and genetics. These disciplines were in conflict for much of the 20th century and the essays in this collection examine key methodological problems within these disciplines and the difficulties faced in overcoming the conflicts between them. Burian skillfully weaves together historical appreciation of the settings within which scientists work, substantial knowledge of the biological problems at stake and the methodological and philosophical issues faced in integrating biological knowledge drawn from disparate sources.

Author : for the National Academy of Sciences
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995-02-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309552677

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Tempo and Mode in Evolution by for the National Academy of Sciences Pdf

Since George Gaylord Simpson published Tempo and Mode in Evolution in 1944, discoveries in paleontology and genetics have abounded. This volume brings together the findings and insights of today's leading experts in the study of evolution, including Ayala, W. Ford Doolittle, and Stephen Jay Gould. The volume examines early cellular evolution, explores changes in the tempo of evolution between the Precambrian and Phanerozoic periods, and reconstructs the Cambrian evolutionary burst. Long-neglected despite Darwin's interest in it, species extinction is discussed in detail. Although the absence of data kept Simpson from exploring human evolution in his book, the current volume covers morphological and genetic changes in human populations, contradicting the popular claim that all modern humans descend from a single woman. This book discusses the role of molecular clocks, the results of evolution in 12 populations of Escherichia coli propagated for 10,000 generations, a physical map of Drosophila chromosomes, and evidence for "hitchhiking" by mutations.

Author : Barbara Land
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Biologists
ISBN : 0690272146

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Evolution of a Scientist by Barbara Land Pdf

Biography of a Russian-American scientist who contributed much to the field of genetics with his studies of the Drosophila fly.