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1 lut 2021 · Throughout his career, Dobzhansky (1900–1975) doubted whether natural selection could explain evolution. My first thesis is that his doubt was qualified and declined during his life, but never...
28 lut 2021 · To explain these reasons will describe how natural selection acquired its explanatory role in Dobzhansky’s contribution to the synthetic theory of evolution and how this affected his theory choice.
23 lis 2023 · I reconstruct the relationship between the evolutionary geneticists Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975) and Richard Lewontin (1929–2021). Using archival research and published texts, I show that Lewontin inherited his dissertation director’s research program as well as his “biology of democracy.”
14 lip 2014 · 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.
During his formative years, the Russian American geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky experienced the Communist Revolution. The psychological and spiritual effects of this experience entered his science in two forms. First, on the human level he came to see the relationship between individual and society as one of conflict.
Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975) was one of the most important biologists of the twentieth century. Consider his achievements.
1 lip 2020 · In this paper, we introduce the topic of hormesis to the broader evolution and development research. We provide a historical overview of the origin of the concept of hormesis in the biological and biomedical sciences, and explore its potential role in ecological and human risk assessment.
