Theodosius Dobzhansky

Theodosius Grigorievich Dobzhansky

The world's foremost geneticist surveys the major developments in what is emerging as the most important single area of scientific inquiry in the twentieth century: biological theory of evolution.

Genetics of the Evolutionary Process

Max K. Hecht

William C. Steere

Volume 6

Evolutionary Biology

Swami Nikhilananda

Reinhold Niebuhr

Julian S. Huxley

Oliver L. Reiser

This collection features five essays from noted theologians, philosophers, geneticists, and biologists who discuss the sweeping impact of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species on their respective fields. This volume, edited by Ralph Buchsbaum, professor of biology at the University of Pittsburgh, was published to celebrate the centenary of Darwin's announcement in 1858, along with Alfred Russel Wallace, of their independent discovery of the process of natural selection. Darwin's book was published one year later.

Essays on Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species

A Book that Shook the World

Genetics and the Origin of Species

1 On Some Fundamental Concepts of Darwinian Biology.- Vitalism, Mechanism, and Compositionism.- Adaptedness and Adaptation.- Adaptedness to Survive and to Reproduce.- Adaptability.- Evolutionary Plasticity.- The Problem of Quantification of Adaptedness.- Darwinian Fitness.- Varieties of Natural Selection.- Darwinian Fitness and Adaptedness.- Evolutionary Opportunism and Adaptive Radiation.- Progressive Evolution.- References.- 2 Cave Ecology and the Evolution of Troglobites.- Animal Life in Caves.- The Cave Ecosystem.- Regressive Evolution in Cave Animals.- Speciation and Adaptation in Troglob.

W. Sinnott

Edmund Ware Sinnott

Leslie Clarence Dunn

Heredity and the continuity of life; Heredity and environment; Mendel law of segregation;Segregation of genes and chromosomes; Simple mendelian traits in man; Mendel principle of independent assortment; The expression and interaction of genes; Multiple-factors inheritance; Allelism and pleitropism; Lethal genes, penetrance and expressivity; The nature-nurture problem in man: twin studies; Sex-linked inheritance; Linkage and crossing over; Genetic maps of chromosomes Chromosomes aberrations and cytological maps; Spontaneous mutation; Genes in population; Crossing, selfing, inbreeding and heterosis; Genetics of race formation; Genetics of species formation, Determination of sex; Varieties of sexual reproduction; Physiological genetics; The genic control of development; The elements of the genetic system; Organization of the genetic material; Statiscal inference in genetics.

Principles of Genetics

Isaac Asimov

In addition to being one of the world's greatest science fiction writers, Isaac Asimov (1920- 1992) was highly regarded as an indefatigable popularizer of science. Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900-1975) was a prominent geneticist. "The Genetic Effects of Radiation" is a booklet originally prepared in 1966 for publication by the Atomic Energy Commission, then a part of the US Government. It was part of the AEC's "Understanding the Atom" series. It covers some of basics of radioactivity, genetics, and the effects of radiation on living tissue in general and more specifically on DNA, and its concomitant impact on inheritance and a species' genetic load. This book is in the Deseret Alphabet, a phonetic alphabet for writing English developed in the mid-19th century at the University of Deseret (now the University of Utah).

The Genetic Effects of Radiation (Deseret Alphabet Edition)

Theodosius Dobzhansky

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