The Evolution of Theodosius Dobzhansky : essays on his life and thought in Russia and America
Title:
The Evolution of Theodosius Dobzhansky : essays on his life and thought in Russia and America
Author:
Adams, Mark B.
Publication Information:
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1994]
©1994
Physical Description:
xi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
General Note:
Selected papers from the International Symposium on Theodosius Dobzhansky, held in Leningrad Sept. 17-19, 1990.
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction: Theodosius Dobzhansky in Russia and America / Theodosius Dobzhansky: a family story / Dobzhansky and Russian entomology: the origin of his ideas on species and speciation / Filipchenko and Dobzhansky: issues in evolutionary genetics in the 1920s / From the archives: Dobzhansky in Kiev and Leningrad / Theodosius Dobzhansky, the Morgan lab, and the breakdown of the naturalist/experimentalist dichotomy, 1927-1947
Origin of Dobzhansky's Genetics and the Origin of Species / Fly room west: Dobzhansky, D. pseudoobscura, and scientific practice / Dobzhansky on evolutionary dynamics: some questions about his Russian background / Dobzhansky, Waddington, and Schmalhausen: embryology and the modern synthesis / Theodosius Dobzhansky remembered: genetic coadaptation / Dobzhansky, artificial life, and the "larger questions" of evolution
Evolutionary worldview of Theodosius Dobzhansky / Dobzhansky and the biology of democracy: the moral and political significance of genetic variation / Dobzhansky in the "nature-nurture" debate / Dobzhansky and the problem of progress
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ISBN:
9780691034799
Format :
Book
