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The Founders of Evolutionary Genetics - A Centenary Reappraisal (Hardcover, 1992 ed.)
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The Founders of Evolutionary Genetics - A Centenary Reappraisal (Hardcover, 1992 ed.)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 142
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genetics. " It is simply the appropriation of that term, very
likely with insufficient knowledge and respect for its past usage.
For that, the Editor alone is responsible and requests tolerance.
He has, as far as he can tell, no intention or desire to use it for
any historiographical purposes other than that just mentioned. Even
more important, the decision to consider Muller together with
Fisher, Haldane and Wright is also not original. Crow (1984) has
already done so, arguing persua sively that Muller was "keenly
interested in evolution and made sub stantial contributions to the
development of the neo-Darwinian view. " Crow's reasons for
considering these four figures together and the reasons discussed
above are complementary. This book continues a historiographical
choice he initiated; others will have to judge whether it is
appropriate. The foregoing considerations were intended to show why
Fisher, Haldane, Muller and Wright should be considered together in
the history of theoretical evolutionary genetics. I By a welcome
stroke of luck, from the point of view of the Editor, all four of
these figures were born almost together, between 1889 and 1892, and
almost exactly a century ago. It therefore seemed appropriate to
use their birth cente naries to consider their work together. A
conference was held at Boston University, on March 6, 1990, under
the auspices of the Boston Center for the Philosophy and History of
Science, to discuss their work. This book has emerged mainly from
that conference."
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