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Filtering by: Creator Telford, C. J. (Clarence John), 1887- Advisor Farber, Paul L. Non-Academic Affiliation Oregon State University. Graduate School

The marine biological station of San Diego : its development as related to the ideas and ideals of William Emerson Ritter (1856-1944)

Creator:

Alexander, Gail Marie

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A number of historians of science have been involved in studying the nature of biology at the turn of the century, and the picture that they have developed describes biology during this time as a field struggling to define itself. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, biologists were...

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Masters Thesis

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latter generations, 2-uarland Allen, Life Science in the Twentieth Century (New York: John Wiley and
Second nature : domestication as experiment and metaphor in 20th century American psychobiology

Creator:

Blanchard, Nicholas

Abstract:

By 1900 domestication was a promising, if somewhat vexed, subject in biology. Volumes had been written about domestication, but little serious scientific inquiry was directed toward the phenomenon. Expertise lay with practical men, primarily breeders and fanciers. The bulk of scientific commentary on domestication came from anthropologists who derived theories...

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Dissertation

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. -C. Darwin, 1868.1 Charles Darwin leant domestication a grandeur it had not often held in