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An assessment of rival British theories of biogeography, 1800-1859

Creator:

Kinch, Michael P.

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At the beginning of the nineteenth century most theorizing British naturalists supported a Biblical account of the distribution of life which was based upon the notion that life had been dispersed from the resting place of the ark. This implied a relatively even dispersion of life about the Earth, but...

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Masters Thesis

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botanic garden at the University of Berlin. Leonard Wilson claims that Willdenow was the first to espouse
William Ernest Castle, American geneticist : a case-study in the impact of the Mendelian research program

Creator:

Taylor, H. Terry

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In their modern context questions of heredity have come to be closely aligned with theories of evolution because all such theories require the presence of heritable variation. Thus the need for an understanding of a source of variation and a mechanism for its inheritance became very apparent with the general...

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Masters Thesis
History and analysis of the creation research society

Creator:

Elliott, William E.

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The resurgence of creationism the past few years has been led by advocates of recent-creationism. These individuals, a minority among creationists in general, argue that the entire universe was created approximately 10,000 years ago in one six-day period of time. Recent-creationists support their position by appealing to the Genesis account...

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Masters Thesis