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

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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 ""evolution...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adams, Mark B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Dobzhansky, Theodosius, > 1900-1975.
Dobzhansky, Theodosius, > 1900-1975 > Political and social views > Congresses.
Political and social views.
Genetics.
Evolution (Biology)
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Evolution.
SCIENCE > History.
Genetique > URSS > Histoire > Congres.
Evolution (Biology) > History > Congresses.
Genetics > Soviet Union > History > Congresses.
Soviet Union.
History.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Dobzhansky in the ""Nature-Nurture"" Debate Dobzhansky and the Problem of Progress ; Contributors.

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