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Essays in Evolution and Genetics in Honor of Theodosius Dobzhansky

A Supplement to Evolutionary Biology

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  • © 1970

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Editors:
  1. Max K. Hecht

    1. Queens College, USA

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  2. William C. Steere

    1. The New York Botanical Garden, USA

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Theodosius Dobzhansky Up to Now

    • Howard Levene, Lee Ehrman, Rollin Richmond
    Pages 1-41

  3. Uniformitarianism. An Inquiry into Principle, Theory, and Method in Geohistory and Biohistory

    • George Gaylord Simpson
    Pages 43-96

  4. Evolution of Matter and Consciousness and Its Relation to Panpsychistic Identism

    • Bernhard Rensch
    Pages 97-119

  5. Competition, Coexistence, and Evolution

    • Francisco J. Ayala
    Pages 121-158

  6. Adapted Molecules

    • Marcel Florkin, E. Schoffeniels
    Pages 159-172

  7. Variation and Evolution in Plants: Progress During the Past Twenty Years

    • G. Ledyard Stebbins
    Pages 173-208

  8. Population Research in the Scandinavian Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L): Recent Experimentation

    • Vilhelms Eiche, Åke Gustafsson
    Pages 209-235

  9. Heterozygosity and Genetic Polymorphism in Parthenogenetic Animals

    • M. J. D. White
    Pages 237-262

  10. Evolutionary Studies on Maniola jurtina (Lepidoptera, Satyridae): The “Boundary Phenomenon” in Southern England, 1961 to 1968

    • E. R. Creed, W. H. Dowdeswell, E. B. Ford, K. G. McWhirter
    Pages 263-287

  11. The Genetic Basis of a Cell-Pattern Homology in Drosophila Species

    • T. M. Rizki, Rose M. Rizki
    Pages 289-298

  12. Ecological Factors and the Variability of Gene-Pools in Drosophila

    • John Beardmore
    Pages 299-314

  13. Mating Propensity and Its Genetic Basis in Drosophila

    • Eliot B. Spiess
    Pages 315-379

  14. Observations on the Microdispersion of Drosophila melanogaster

    • Bruce Wallace
    Pages 381-399

  15. Studies on the Evolutionary Biology of Chilean Species of Drosophila

    • Danko Brncic
    Pages 401-436

  16. The Evolutionary Biology of the Hawaiian Drosophilidae

    • Hampton L. Carson, D. Elmo Hardy, Herman T. Spieth, Wilson S. Stone
    Pages 437-543

  17. Human Genetic Adaptation

    • C. C. Li
    Pages 545-577

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 579-594
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About this book

It is not often that one has the opportunity to send a public birthday greet­ ing to a friend and colleague of many years, and to congratulate him on having reached the age of reason. In fact it happens only once, and comes then as a surprise. Surely it was only a few years ago that we sat together at an International Genetics Congress in Ithaca, and only yesterday that we became members of the same department. The eighth floor of Schermerhorn Hall had a north end where the flies were and a south end furnished with mice, and in between, a seminar room and laboratory. There the distances were short and the doors open and the coffee pot busy. But it now appears that yesterday has fallen thirty years behind and that we have grown up. I find it interesting and appropriate that Dobzhansky's lifetime spans the period of maturation of the fields to which this volume is devoted. This is true in a chronological sense for his birth occurred in the same year, 1900, in which modern genetics began. The rediscovery of Mendel's princi­ ples and the interpretation of the nature of heredity and variation to which this event led were necessary prerequisites to the development of evolution­ ary biology as presented in this collection of essays.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Queens College, USA

    Max K. Hecht

  • The New York Botanical Garden, USA

    William C. Steere

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Essays in Evolution and Genetics in Honor of Theodosius Dobzhansky

  • Book Subtitle: A Supplement to Evolutionary Biology

  • Editors: Max K. Hecht, William C. Steere

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9585-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Meredith Corporation 1970

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4615-9587-8Published: 01 March 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-9585-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 594

  • Topics: Evolutionary Biology

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