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  • 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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    PROBLEM OF VERTEBRATE ANCESTRY, 1859-1875 Abstract approved: Redacted for Privacy Paul Lawrence Farber

  • William Keith Brooks (1848-1908) : a case study in morphology and the development of American biology

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    Benson, Keith Rodney
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    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...
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    AMERICAN BIOLOGY Abstract approved: Redacted for Privacy Paul Lawrence Farber The major historical

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

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

  • Karl Jordan : a life in systematics

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    Johnson, Kristin Renee
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    Karl Jordan (1861-1959) was an extraordinarily productive entomologist who influenced the development of systematics, entomology, and naturalists' theoretical framework as well as their practice. He has been a figure in existing accounts of the naturalist tradition between 1890 and 1940 that have defended the relative contribution of naturalists to the...
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    Jordan: A Life in Systematics Abstract approved: Paul Lawrence Farber Karl Jordan (1861-1959) was an

  • William Ernest Castle, American geneticist : a case-study in the impact of the Mendelian research program

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

  • Disciplining the reception of Darwin : the botanical and sociological work of Lester Frank Ward

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    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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    : ____________________________________________________________________ Paul Lawrence Farber Mina Carson The publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin

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

    Creator:
    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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    : ______________________________________________________ Paul L. Farber By 1900 domestication was a promising, if somewhat vexed, subject in

  • The coloration of animals : a nineteenth century controversy

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    Blaisdell, Muriel Louise
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    Mimicry, obscure colors, and secondary sexual colors were important classes of observations that were analyzed by nineteenth century biologists from several vantage points. Adherents of the doctrine of special creation of fixed species believed animal colors to be evidence of design; Darwin and Wallace and their successors suggested that a...
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    COLORATION OF ANIMALS: A NINETEENTH CENTURY CONTROVERSY Abstract approved: Redacted for Privacy Paul L

  • John Turberville Needham (1713-1781) and eighteenth century theories of generation

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    Benson, Keith Rodney
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    There were two viable theories of generation, preformation and epigenesis, existing in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Due to their irreconcilable nature, they were often at loggerheads during this time interval. The status of these generation theories can be effectively understood in terms of Thomas Kuhn's conception of preparadigm science....
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    : Paul L. Farber There were two viable theories of generation, prefor- mation and epigenesis, existing

  • An assessment of rival British theories of biogeography, 1800-1859

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    Kinch, Michael P.
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    At the beginning of the nineteenth century most theorizing British naturalists supported a Biblical account of the distribution of life which was based upon the notion that life had been dispersed from the resting place of the ark. This implied a relatively even dispersion of life about the Earth, but...
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I sincerely wish to thank Dr. Paul L. Farber for his concern in guiding this thesis, as well as