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Identical confusion : the history of twin studies on sexual orientation, 1952-1973

Creator:

Boltseridge, Nathan H.

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In 1952, at the height of the McCarthy era, Franz Kallmann, a Jewish psychiatrist and eugenicist who fled the National Socialist regime in Germany, published a study, in which he claimed to have found a one hundred percent concordance rate for homosexuality among forty pairs of identical twins. From this...

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Masters Thesis
The beginnings of a Russian natural history : the life and work of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 - 1755)

Creator:

Koroloff, Rachel

Abstract:

Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 – 1755) was a successful early Russian naturalist whose professional and social destinies were linked to eighteenth-century Russia's nascent but growing naturalist tradition. During his own time Krasheninnikov bridged the gap that existed in Russia between a distinctly European scientific practice and a tradition of Russian...

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Masters Thesis

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person and a better scholar. My fellow graduate students, Melinda Gormley, Erica Jensen, Terry
Disciplining the reception of Darwin : the botanical and sociological work of Lester Frank Ward

Creator:

Zimmerman, Katharine

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The publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, truly a synthesized work of natural history, coincided with the emergence of specialized disciplines in the 19th century. This thesis aims to explore the relationship between the specialization of knowledge, in the form of disciplinization, and the reception of new...

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Masters Thesis

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Gormley, Tulley Long, Cpt. Terry Christensen and Dutton, Dog-Prince of Lake Oswego, all offered their