Genetics of the Evolutionary Process

Dobzhansky, Theodosius

ISBN 10: 0231083068 / ISBN 13: 9780231083065

Published by Columbia University Press, 1970

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This book is in excellent condition, no wear to covers, previous owner signed first inner page and made some markings on other inner pages. Text is not obscured. Spine intact, no creases. "Dobzhansky explained how three levels could describe the processes of evolutionary population genetics: (1) the origin of raw materials by mutations of genes and chromosomes, (2) the changes in populations by changes in frequencies and combinations of mutations, (3) the fixation of changes by reproductive isolation." Wikipedia "Theodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky (Ukrainian: Теодо́сій Григо́рович Добжа́нський; Russian: Феодо́сий Григо́рьевич Добржа́нский) , Ph.D. (University of Leningrad, 1927; B.S., Biology, University of Kiev, 1921), was a prominent geneticist and evolutionary biologist, one of the central figures in modern evolutionary synthesis; his major work concerning the latter is "Genetics and the Origin of Species"", published in 1937. He emigrated to the USA in 1927 on a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation. Dobzhansky was the recipient of the National Medal of Science in 1964 and the Franklin Medal in 1973." Good Reads.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Genetics of the Evolutionary Process
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0231083068
• ISBN 13: 9780231083065
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 0.6 kilograms

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Synopsis

In this volume, the product of decades of study and research, the world's foremost geneticist surveys the major developments in what is emerging as the most important single area of scientific inquiry in the twentieth century: biological theory of evolution in particular.

Noting that the theory of evolution in biology is more than a century old, Dr. Dobzhansky points out that it is nevertheless only in recent times that our knowledge of its physical basis as well as our understanding of its dynamics has progressed greatly. Yet, he notes, new problems have replaced the older ones at the forefront of scientific inquiry, problems which require entirely new approaches. It is to these manifold and exciting new questions that the author brings a lifetime of experience.

Throughout, his goal is to create not a summary of all the available literature, nor a professional book written only for the scientific community, but rather a presentation of basic ideas, accompanied by the indispensable references which would enable interested readers to pursue the matter further. The book has been purposely kept short to enable it to be read as a whole, and above all, it has been written in a manner which will hold the attention as well as inform both the general reader and the professionally concerned scientist.

Book Description

The world's foremost geneticist surveys the major developments in what is emerging as the most important single area of scientific inquiry in the twentieth century: biological theory of evolution.