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Creator:: Currey, Linda Lorraine
Abstract:: In 1906, applying Charles Darwin's evolutionary theories to the human race, Sir Francis Galton introduced the concept of eugenics, "the science of the improvement of the human race by better breeding." The rediscovery in 1900 of Mendel's laws of genetic inheritance and an upsurge in hereditarian thought set the stage...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Eugenic Movement 1900 - 1930 . . . . 4 III. Pioneer Advocate of Eugenics in Oregon: Bethenia Angelina

Creator:: Hagen, Joel Bartholemew
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Experimental Taxonomy, 1930-1950: The Impact of Cytology

Creator:: Vessel, Richard Douglas
Abstract:: A year-long caged study the belted kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) combined time-budget and food-balance techniques to obtain data on daily energy consumption (DEC) throughout an annual cycle. This study tested the hypothesis that seasonal variations in DEC could be predicted as a function of temperature, photoperiod, and timed-activity data. The DEC...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ) AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Richard Douglas Vessel for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

Creator:: Rymon, Larry Maring
Abstract:: This analysis is the study of Oregon's wildlife resources from the period prior to white settlement up to the present time, including critical projections, based on present trends and expected conditions for both human and wildlife populations in the state up to the year 2010. Prior to white settlement Oregon...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: cooperatively with several state and federal agencies in the 1920's and 1930's in an effort to restore depleted

Creator:: Chorzempa, Mary André, Sister
Abstract:: Chemical dosimetry developed in response to needs created by developments in the field of high-energy radiation. Shortly after the discovery of X-rays in 1895 and of radioactivity in 1896, the deleterious effects of ionizing radiation were recognized. To guard against the injurious effects of radiation in medical application, dose-measuring methods...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: devices in the 1930's provided for still further application of ionizing radiation in medicine and in

Creator:: Benson, Keith Rodney
Abstract:: The major historical studies that have examined American biology have emphasized the development of experimental biology at the end of the nineteenth century. In this characterization, the descriptive branch of biology has often been treated as less than important and, in several cases, as a hindrance in the application of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Dall (1845-1927), Walter Faxon (1848-1920), J. Walter Fewkes (1850-1930), Samuel Garman (1843-1927

Creator:: Beeson, Roberta Jane
Abstract:: Determination of the Vertebrate pedigree was a particularly enigmatic problem for evolutionary morphologists of the early post-Darwinian period. At that time, practically no characteristics were known by which the Vertebrates could be linked to any of the other animal groups. Up to the 1850's, most research in embryology and anatomy...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Hankins, Lela Ruth
Abstract:: The purposes of this investigation were twofold: 1. To determine important criteria for making a selection of course content in general biology. 2. To ascertain what should be the content emphasis in biology for the purposes of general education at the freshman college level. The literature pertinent to the problem...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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