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William Ernest Castle, American geneticist : a case-study in the impact of the Mendelian research program

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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

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encouragement during my entire program. My thanks to Dr. Peter Dawson who read much of the manuscript and was
Metabolic adaptations of the marine gastropod Thais emarginata

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Sweat, Sister Jean

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Thais emarginata is a gastropod which inhabits the midlittoral zone of the intertidal region. Oxygen consumption of high-level and low-level organisms was determined at various seasons of the year over an experimental temperature range of 5 to 20° C. No significant difference in respiratory rate between separate populations of high-level...

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Dissertation

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interest and suggestions, Dr. Peter Dawson, Dr. Paul Farber, Dr. Donald McKenzie, Dr. Austin Pritchard
Experimental taxonomy, 1930-1950 : the impact of cytology, ecology, and genetics on ideas of biological classification

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Hagen, Joel Bartholemew

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During the years between 1930 and 1950 a number of attempts were made to introduce techniques and ideas from cytology, ecology, and genetics into the field of taxonomy. Advocates of this "experimental taxonomy" believed that cytological, ecological, and genetic techniques would provide a rigorous, objective methodology to replace the traditional...

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Dissertation

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completed. I am also grate- ful to the other members of my dissertation committee. Peter Daw- son, Brookes