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  • Second nature : domestication as experiment and metaphor in 20th century American psychobiology

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    Blanchard, Nicholas
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    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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    - BlanchardDissertationCompleteMike'sRevisions.docx   AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Nicholas Blanchard for the degree of Doctor of

  • Structural oppression of African Americans in higher education

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    Powell, William N.
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    Researching what I believe to be exclusionary practices in higher education against African Americans has compelled me to approach this subject, in part, historically. Although I realize that a historical chronology of any subject is often deceptive, as with any writer, I am tempted to interpret events to fit my...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF William N. Powell for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

  • Forms of Life: Goethe’s Impact on Twentieth-Century Anglophone Botany and Morphology

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    Hahn, Andre M.
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    This dissertation examines the impact of the German naturalist and literary figure Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s ideas on twentieth century Anglophone plant morphology and biology. Goethe interpreted the organ forms of flowering plants as metamorphoses of each other. His literary, historical, and philosophical writings suggest themes of alienation from and...
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    Goethean scientists George Adams and Olive Whicher used projective geometry to integrate Goethe’s

  • Education of American research astronomers, 1876-1941

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    Hall, Robert Dale, 1947-
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    The education (particularly graduate education) of Americans who were active in astronomical research between 1876 and 1941 is assessed for its effectiveness in preparing the astronomers for careers in research. This period contains three dynamic changes: the growth of American astronomy in becoming the world's leading community of astronomers, the...
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    YEARS, 1879-1891 ........................................... 146 ASAPH HALL, JR. YEARS, 1892-1905

  • California condors in the Pacific Northwest : integrating history, molecular ecology, and spatial modeling for reintroduction planning

    Creator:
    D'Elia, Jesse
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    Reintroduction programs are increasingly being used to save animals from extinction and aid in their recovery. The California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus), one of the most endangered birds in the world, is a remarkable example of how reintroduction programs can help rapidly increase a species' population numbers and range following a...
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    samples (n = 67) and genetic founders of the captive population (n =14) revealed 18 haplotypes in the

  • Geneticist L.C. Dunn : politics, activism, and community

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    Gormley, Melinda (Melinda Brooke)
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    L. C. Dunn (1893-1974) spent most of his scientific career conducting research in developmental genetics as a member of the Zoology Department at Columbia University in the City of New York. He had an accomplished scientific career researching mutations in mice, which earned him respect from other geneticists and scientists....
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    4 G.D.H. Cole, Fabian Socialism (London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1943); Patricia Pugh, Educate

  • The Science of Becoming Noble: Rationalizing Aristocracy through Diagrammatic Notations for Dance and Drill in the Age of Enlightenment

    Creator:
    Caulkins, Tamara L.
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    During the eighteenth century, diagrams increasingly became an important aspect of scientific inquiry. Diagrams employed simplification as a strategy for representing complex information, played a role in standardizing scientific language, and served as instruments of reason to think through and communicate problems and findings in mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, natural...
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    . ..................................... 204 Figure 3.20.1.“La St. George” Contredanse. Title page

  • John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

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    Christensen, Terry M.
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    This dissertation has two objectives. The first objective is to determine where best to situate the study of mentoring (i.e. the 'making of scientists') on the landscape of the history of science and science studies. This task is accomplished by establishing mentoring studies as a link between the robust body...
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    prize 1902); Fischer studied with Adolf von Baeyer (Adolf von Baeyer (1835 – 1917, Nobel Prize 1905

  • Bridging the gap : the problem of vertebrate ancestry, 1859-1875

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    Beeson, Roberta Jane
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    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...
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    deals with the first two theories of Vertebrate ancestry, proposed by Franz Leydig (1821-1905) in 1864

  • A history of Indian education in the United States

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    Morris, Harold White
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    Pepartment of Education, and to Mr. Martin N. B. Holm, Area Director of Schools, ?ortland, Oregon, who