The Creativity of Natural Selection? Part I: Darwin, Darwinism, and the MutationistsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 49 - Trang 659-684 - 2016
John Beatty
This is the first of a two-part essay on the history of debates concerning the
creativity of natural selection, from Darwin through the evolutionary synthesis
and up to the present. Here I focus on the mid-late nineteenth century to the
early twentieth, with special emphasis on early Darwinism and its critics, the
self-styled “mutationists.” The second part focuses on the evolutionary
synthesis an... hiện toàn bộ
Germs and Jim Crow: The Impact of Microbiology on Public Health Policies in Progressive Era American SouthSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - - 2008
Andrea Patterson
Race proved not merely a disadvantage in securing access to prompt and
appropriate medical care, but often became a life and death issue for blacks in
the American South during the early decades of the twentieth century. This
article investigates the impact some of the new academic disciplines such as
anthropology, evolutionary biology, racially based pathology and genetics had in
promoting scient... hiện toàn bộ
The J.H.B. bookshelfSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - - 1987
Shirley A. Roe, Keith R. Benson, Joy Harvey, Sharon E. Kingsland
The Yale Geochronometric Laboratory and the Rewriting of Global Environmental HistorySpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 56 - Trang 35-63 - 2023
Laura J. Martin
Beginning in the nineteenth century, scientists speculated that the Pleistocene
megafauna—species such as the giant ground sloth, wooly mammoth, and saber-tooth
cat—perished because of rapid climate change accompanying the end of the most
recent Ice Age. In the 1950s, a small network of ecologists challenged this view
in collaboration with archeologists who used the new tool of radiocarbon dating.... hiện toàn bộ