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Essay: The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate
By: Valerie Racine
| Published: Oct 07, 2013
In 1830, a dispute erupted in the halls of lÕAcad mie des Sciences in Paris between the two most prominent anatomists of the nineteenth century.…
EssayAnimals--ClassificationCuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832AnatomyBiological Evolution
The Discovery of The Dikika Baby Fossil as Evidence for Australopithecine Growth and Development
By: Madison Paige
| Published: Feb 02, 2015
When scientists discovered a 3.3 million-year-old skeleton of a child of the human lineage (hominin) in 2000, in the village of Hadar, Ethiopia, they…
Human remains (Archaeology)Prehistoric peoplesAntiquities, PrehistoricArcheologyAnthropology, Physical
Roy John Britten (1919-2012)
By: Abhinav Mishra
| Published: Oct 24, 2014
Roy John Britten studied DNA sequences in the US in the second half of the twentieth century, and he helped discover repetitive elements in DNA…
DNAGenomesCalifornia Institute of TechnologyGenetic regulationMice
St. George Jackson Mivart (1827-1900)
By: Divyash Chhetri
| Published: Apr 04, 2014
St. George Jackson Mivart studied animals and worked in England during the nineteenth century. He also proposed a theory of organismal development…
Evolution
Charles Benedict Davenport (1866-1944)
By: Cera R. Lawrence
| Published: May 12, 2011
Charles Benedict Davenport was an early twentieth-century experimental zoologist. Davenport founded both the Station for Experimental Evolution and…
PeopleEugenicsReproductionZoologypublic health
Francis Maitland Balfour (1851-1882)
By: Mark A. Ulett
| Published: Jun 29, 2010
During the 1870s and early 1880s, the British morphologist Francis Maitland Balfour contributed in important ways to the budding field of…
BiographyEvolution
Making Visible Embryos (2008- ), by Tatjana Buklijaz and Nick Hopwood
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 25, 2010
Making Visible Embryos is a 2008 online exhibition of embryos authored and designed by Tatjana Buklijaz and Nick Hopwood who work in the Department…
OrganizationOrganizationsEducation
Neural Crest
By: M. Elizabeth Barnes
| Published: Sep 15, 2014
Early in the process of development, vertebrate embryos develop a fold on the neural plate where the neural and epidermal ectoderms meet, called the…
VertebratesdevelopmentGerm LayersNeural CrestNeural Crest Cells
William Bateson (1861-1926)
By: Samantha Hauserman
| Published: Jan 28, 2014
At the turn of the twentieth century, William Bateson studied organismal variation and heredity of traits within the framework of evolutionary theory…
GeneticsHeredityMendel, Gregor, 1822-1884EvolutionEmbryology
"The Adaptive Significance of Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination in a Reptile" (2008), by Daniel Warner and Richard Shine
By: Karla Moeller
| Published: Oct 07, 2013
In 2008 researchers Daniel Warner and Richard Shine tested the Charnov-Bull model by conducting experiments on the Jacky dragon (Amphibolurus…
ExperimentsSex DifferentiationReproductionAdaptationfetal development