Essays in Evolution and Genetics in Honor of Theodosius Dobzhansky A Supplement to Evolutionary Biology
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Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.03.2012
Herausgeber
Max K. HechtVerlag
Springer UsSeitenzahl
594
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22.9/15.2/3.3 cm
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879 g
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Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1970
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-4615-9587-8
It is not often that one has the opportunity to send a public birthday greet ing to a friend and colleague of many years, and to congratulate him on having reached the age of reason. In fact it happens only once, and comes then as a surprise. Surely it was only a few years ago that we sat together at an International Genetics Congress in Ithaca, and only yesterday that we became members of the same department. The eighth floor of Schermerhorn Hall had a north end where the flies were and a south end furnished with mice, and in between, a seminar room and laboratory. There the distances were short and the doors open and the coffee pot busy. But it now appears that yesterday has fallen thirty years behind and that we have grown up. I find it interesting and appropriate that Dobzhansky's lifetime spans the period of maturation of the fields to which this volume is devoted. This is true in a chronological sense for his birth occurred in the same year, 1900, in which modern genetics began. The rediscovery of Mendel's princi ples and the interpretation of the nature of heredity and variation to which this event led were necessary prerequisites to the development of evolution ary biology as presented in this collection of essays.
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