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Experimental taxonomy, 1930-1950 : the impact of cytology, ecology, and genetics on ideas of biological classification

Creator:

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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on Ideas of Biological Classification Redacted for privacy Abstract approved: Paul Lawrence Farber
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

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. Finally, it is a privilege to acknowledge Dr. Paul Farber, my major advisor. His role has been of a very