• Genetics and the Origin of Species is a 1937 book by the Ukrainian-American evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky. It is regarded as one of the...
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    On the Origin of Species (or, more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle...
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  • Theodosius Dobzhansky (category Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
    Dobzhansky emigrated to the United States in 1927, aged 27. His 1937 work Genetics and the Origin of Species became a major influence on the modern synthesis...
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  • Systematics and the Origin of Species from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist is a book written by zoologist and evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, first published...
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    anthropology, paleontology, and genetics. Primates diverged from other mammals about 85 million years ago (mya), in the Late Cretaceous period, with...
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  • Ecological genetics is the study of genetics in natural populations. It combines ecology, evolution, and genetics to understand the processes behind adaptation...
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    Theodosius. 1951. Genetics and the Origin of Species (3rd ed). New York: Columbia U. Pr. Note the contrast between these this edition and the original 1937...
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  • Genetics and the Origin of Species. Dobzhansky examined the genetic diversity of wild populations and showed that, contrary to the assumptions of the...
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    LCCN 94049158. OCLC 31867409. Dobzhansky, Theodosius (1937). Genetics and the Origin of Species. Columbia University Biological Series. New York: Columbia...
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  • Genetics and the Origin of Species in 1937 where he formulated the genetic framework for how speciation could occur.: 2  Other scientists noted the existence...
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  • (1937). Genetics and the Origin of Species. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 310. ISBN 978-0-231-05475-1. Mayr, Ernst (1942). Systematics and the origin...
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    Modern synthesis (20th century) (category History of evolutionary biology)
    Mendelism and Evolution helped to persuade Dobzhansky to change the emphasis in the third edition of his famous textbook Genetics and the Origin of Species from...
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    onset. Although the specific replication origin organization structure and recognition varies from species to species, some common characteristics are shared...
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    publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. In addition, Gregor Mendel's work with plants helped to explain the hereditary patterns of genetics. Fossil...
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    Physics and Philosophy Erwin Schrödinger What Is Life? Theodosius Dobzhansky Genetics and the Origin of Species C. H. Waddington The Nature of Life Thorstein...
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  • In Genetics and the Origin of Species, Theodosius Dobzhansky applies the chromosome theory and population genetics to natural populations in the first...
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    by the population geneticists and the patterns of macroevolution observed by field biologists, with his 1937 book Genetics and the Origin of Species. Dobzhansky...
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    Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms. It is an important branch in biology because heredity is vital to organisms'...
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  • Researchers have investigated the relationship between race and genetics as part of efforts to understand how biology may or may not contribute to human...
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  • (1937). Genetics and the origin of species. Columbia University Press. Dawkins, Richard, 1941- (1982). The extended phenotype : the gene as the unit of selection...
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    sapiens) or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus Homo. They are great apes...
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  • Microevolution (category Population genetics)
    Population genetics is the branch of biology that provides the mathematical structure for the study of the process of microevolution. Ecological genetics concerns...
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    morphs or forms in the population of a species Key concepts Hardy-Weinberg law – Principle in genetics Genetic linkage – Tendency of DNA sequences that...
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  • The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal Theodosius Dobzhansky (1937; 2nd ed 1941; 3rd ed 1951). Genetics and the Origin of...
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    of Species explained how species could arise by natural selection. That understanding was greatly extended in the 20th century through genetics and population...
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  • genetics, also referred to as behaviour genetics, is a field of scientific research that uses genetic methods to investigate the nature and origins of...
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    (1937), Genetics And the Origin of Species, Columbia University Press Butlin, Roger K. (1989). Reinforcement of premating isolation. In Otte, D. and Endler...
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    The history of genetics dates from the classical era with contributions by Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Aristotle, Epicurus, and others. Modern genetics began...
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    (2010), "Reinforcement" and the origin of species, Wordpress A. A. Harper and D. M. Lambert (1983), "The population genetics of reinforcing selection"...
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    "Understanding Genetics: Human Health and the Genome". Ask a Geneticist. Stanford University School of Medicine. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. "The Twin...
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