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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 / Mark B. Adams, editor.
Publication: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1994.

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xi, 247 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

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 (1970-1975), 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).

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Note

Selected papers from the International Symposium on Theodosius Dobzhansky, held in Leningrad Sept. 17-19, 1990.

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Contents

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 -- The 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 E. Gilbert -- Theodosius Dobzhansky Remembered: Genetic Coadaptation / Bruce Wallace.
Dobzhansky, Artificial Life, and the "Larger Questions" of Evolution / Charles E. Taylor -- The 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.

ISBN

0691034796

LCCN

93042144

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Columbia University Libraries