Genetics and the Origin of Species

by Theodosius Dobzhansky, Stephen Jay Gould

Overview

Featuring an introduction by Stephen Jay Gould, "Genetics and the Origin of Species" presents the first edition of Dobzhansky's groundbreaking and now classic inquiry into what has emerged as the most important single area of scientific inquiry in the twentieth century: biological theory of evolution. Genetics and the Origin of Species went through three editions (1937, 1941, and 1951) in which the importance accorded natural selection changed radically.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231054751
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	07/22/1982
Series:	The Columbia Classics in Evolution
Edition description:	Columbia Classics edition
Pages:	364
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

In 1936, nearly ten years after his Russian emigration, Theodosius Dobzhansky attempted the first synthesis of evolutionary semantics and experimental genetics. His lectures at Columbia University from that time became Genetics and the Origin of Species- a long argument for a general attitude toward nature and a specific approach that unified the disparate elements of evolutionary theory.

Table of Contents

Organic Diversity
Gene Mutation
Mutation as a Basis for Racial and Specific Differences
Chromosomal Changes
Variation in Natural Populations
Selection
Polyploidy
Isolating Mechanisms
Hybrid Sterility
Species as Natural Units
Literature
Index