Cargando…

The Evolution of Theodosius Dobzhansky : Essays on His Life and Thought in Russia and America

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 ""evolution...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Adams, Mark B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a22000004a 4500
001 musev2_34126
003 MdBmJHUP
005 20230905043608.0
006 m o d
007 cr||||||||nn|n
008 140719s2014 nju o 00 0 eng d
020 |a 9781400863808 
020 |z 9780691630243 
020 |z 9780691600307 
020 |z 9780691034799 
035 |a (OCoLC)889251272 
040 |a MdBmJHUP  |c MdBmJHUP 
100 1 |a Adams, Mark B. 
245 1 4 |a The Evolution of Theodosius Dobzhansky :   |b Essays on His Life and Thought in Russia and America 
264 1 |a Princeton :  |b Princeton University Press,  |c 2014. 
264 3 |a Baltimore, Md. :  |b Project MUSE,   |c 2015 
264 4 |c ©2014. 
300 |a 1 online resource (264 pages). 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
490 0 |a Princeton Legacy Library 
500 |a Cover. 
505 0 |a Preface ; Acknowledgments ; INTRODUCTION; Introduction: Theodosius Dobzhansky in Russia and America ; Theodosius Dobzhansky: A Family Story ; PART ONE: RUSSIAN ROOTS ; 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 ; PART TWO: THE MORGAN LAB; Theodosius Dobzhansky, the Morgan Lab, and the Breakdown of the Naturalist/Experimentalist Dichotomy, 1927-1947; The Origin of Dobzhansky's Genetics and the Origin of Species. 
505 0 |a Fly Room West: Dobzhansky D. pseudoobscura, and Scientific Practice ; Dobzhansky on Evolutionary Dynamics: Some Questions about His Russian Background ; PART THREE: THE SCIENTIFIC LEGACY ; Dobzhansky, Waddington, and Schmalhausen: Embryology and the Modern Synthesis; Theodosius Dobzhansky Remembered: Genetic Coadaptation ; Dobzhansky, Artificial Life, and the ""Larger Questions"" of Evolution ; PART FOUR: DOBZHANSKY'S WORLDVIEW ; The Evolutionary Worldview of Theodosius Dobzhansky ; Dobzhansky and the Biology of Democracy: The Moral and Political Significance of Genetic Variation. 
505 0 |a Dobzhansky in the ""Nature-Nurture"" Debate Dobzhansky and the Problem of Progress ; Contributors. 
520 |a 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 anal 
546 |a English. 
588 |a Description based on print version record. 
600 1 7 |a Dobzhansky, Theodosius,  |d 1900-1975.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01760132 
600 1 0 |a Dobzhansky, Theodosius,  |d 1900-1975  |x Political and social views  |v Congresses. 
650 7 |a Political and social views.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01353986 
650 7 |a Genetics.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00940117 
650 7 |a Evolution (Biology)  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00917302 
650 7 |a SCIENCE  |x Life Sciences  |x Evolution.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a SCIENCE  |x History.  |2 bisacsh 
650 6 |a Genetique  |z URSS  |x Histoire  |v Congres. 
650 0 |a Evolution (Biology)  |x History  |v Congresses. 
650 0 |a Genetics  |z Soviet Union  |x History  |v Congresses. 
651 7 |a Soviet Union.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01210281 
655 7 |a History.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 
655 7 |a Conference papers and proceedings.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01423772 
655 7 |a Electronic books.   |2 local 
710 2 |a Project Muse.  |e distributor 
830 0 |a Book collections on Project MUSE. 
856 4 0 |z Texto completo  |u https://projectmuse.uam.elogim.com/book/34126/ 
945 |a Project MUSE - Custom Collection 
945 |a Project MUSE - Archive Complete Supplement III 
945 |a Project MUSE - Archive History Supplement III