The Evolutionary Worldview of Theodosius Dobzhansky

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE vii
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
5. INTRODUCTION
6. Introduction: Theodosius Dobzhansky in Russia and America 3
7. Theodosius Dobzhansky: A Family Story 13
8. PART ONE. RUSSIAN ROOTS
9. Dobzhansky and Russian Entomology: The Origin of His Ideas on Species and Speciation 31
10. Filipchenko and Dobzhansky: Issues in Evolutionary Genetics in the 1920s 49
11. From the Archives: Dobzhansky in Kiev and Leningrad 63
12. PART TWO. THE MORGAN LAB
13. Theodosius Dobzhansky, the Morgan Lab, and the Breakdown of the Naturalist/Experimentalist Dichotomy, 1927-1947 87
14. The Origin of Dobzhansky's Genetics and the Origin of Species 99
15. Fly Room West: Dobzhansky, D. pseudoobscura, and Scientific Practice 115
16. Dobzhansky on Evolutionary Dynamics: Some Questions about His Russian Background 129
17. PART THREE. THE SCIENTIFIC LEGACY
18. Dobzhansky, Waddington, and Schmalhausen: Embryology and the Modern Synthesis 143
19. Theodosius Dobzhansky Remembered: Genetic Coadaptation 155
20. Dobzhansky, Artificial Life, and the "Larger Questions" of Evolution 163
21. PART FOUR. DOBZHANSKY'S WORLDVIEW
22. The Evolutionary Worldview of Theodosius Dobzhansky 179
23. Dobzhansky and the Biology of Democracy: The Moral and Political Significance of Genetic Variation 195
24. Dobzhansky in the "Nature-Nurture" Debate 219
25. Dobzhansky and the Problem of Progress 233
26. CONTRIBUTORS 247