• 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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  • 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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  • Theodosius Dobzhansky (category Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
    work Genetics and the Origin of Species became a major influence on the modern synthesis. He was awarded the U.S. National Medal of Science in 1964 and the...
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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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    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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    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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    Modern synthesis (20th century) (category History of evolutionary biology)
    coined the term in his 1942 book, Evolution: The Modern Synthesis. The synthesis combined the ideas of natural selection, Mendelian genetics, and population...
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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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    human intelligence – Evolution of the brain and the origin of language Human evolutionary genetics – Study of differences between human genomes Sexual selection...
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    The origin of replication (also called the replication origin) is a particular sequence in a genome at which replication is initiated. Propagation 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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    views on eugenics. One of the founding works of population genetics. Dobzhansky, Theodosius (1937). Genetics and the origin of species. With an introduction...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • of evolution and genetics, as the first comprehensive publication to discuss the relationship between genetics and natural selection in plants. The book...
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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. Dawkins, Richard, 1941- (1982). The extended phenotype : the gene as the unit of selection...
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  • G. Ledyard Stebbins (category Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
    from Dobzhansky's 1937 Genetics and the Origin of Species and provided the conceptual framework to organize a disparate set of disciplines into a new...
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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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    (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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    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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    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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