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Introduction: Theodosius Dobzhansky in Russia and America / Mark B. Adams -- Theodosius Dobzhansky: a family story / Sophia Dobzhansky Coe -- Dobzhansky and Russian entomology: the origin of his ideas on species and speciation / Nikolai L. Krementsov -- Filipchenko and Dobzhansky: issues in evolutionary genetics in the 1920s / Daniel A. Alexandrov -- From the archives: Dobzhansky in Kiev and Leningrad / Mikhail B. Konashev -- Theodosius Dobzhansky, the Morgan lab, and the breakdown of the naturalist/experimentalist dichotomy, 1927-1947 / Garland E. Allen. |
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Origin of Dobzhansky's Genetics and the Origin of Species / William B. Provine -- Fly room west: Dobzhansky, D. pseudoobscura, and scientific practice / Robert E. Kohler -- Dobzhansky on evolutionary dynamics: some questions about his Russian background / Richard M. Burian -- Dobzhansky, Waddington, and Schmalhausen: embryology and the modern synthesis / Scott F. Gilbert -- Theodosius Dobzhansky remembered: genetic coadaptation / Bruce Wallace -- Dobzhansky, artificial life, and the "larger questions" of evolution / Charles E. Taylor. |
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Evolutionary worldview of Theodosius Dobzhansky / Costas B. Krimbas -- Dobzhansky and the biology of democracy: the moral and political significance of genetic variation / John Beatty -- Dobzhansky in the "nature-nurture" debate / Diane B. Paul -- Dobzhansky and the problem of progress / Michael Ruse. |
General note | Selected papers from the International Symposium on Theodosius Dobzhansky, held in Leningrad Sept. 17-19, 1990. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
Acquisitions source |
Laupus- Karel B. Absolon History of Medicine Library |
LCCN | 93042144 |
ISBN | 0691034796 |