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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
"Altruism and the Origin of the Worker Caste" from The Ants (1990), by Bert Hölldobler and Edward Osborne Wilson
By: Kelle Dhein
| Published: Jul 24, 2017
In 'Altruism and the Origin of the Worker Caste,' Bert Hölldobler and Edward Osborne Wilson explore the evolutionary origins of worker ants. '…
LiteratureAntsInsect societiesKin selection (Evolution)Evolution
Multiplex Automated Genome Engineering (MAGE)
By: Risa Aria Schnebly
| Published: Dec 10, 2020
Multiplex Automated Genome Engineering, or MAGE, is a genome editing technique that enables scientists to quickly edit an organism’s DNA to produce…
TechnologyGenetic EngineeringGenetic engineering industryGenetic epidemiologyGene libraries
Wilhelm Johannsen's Genotype-Phenotype Distinction
By: B. R. Erick Peirson
| Published: Dec 07, 2012
Wilhelm Johannsen in Denmark first proposed the distinction between genotype and phenotype in the study of heredity in 1909. This distinction is…
Johannsen, W. (Wilhelm), 1857-1927Genotype-environment interactionPhenotypeHeredityGenetics
John von Neumann's Cellular Automata
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| Published: Jun 14, 2010
Cellular automata (CA) are mathematical models used to simulate complex systems or processes. In several fields, including biology, physics, and…
Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957ModelsEvolution
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
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
John Tyler Bonner (1920- )
By: Mary E. Sunderland
| Published: May 09, 2008
The establishment and growth of developmental-evolutionary biology owes a great debt to the work of John Tyler Bonner. Bonner's studies of cellular…
PeopleDictyosteliidaBiographyMorphogenesisMulticellularity
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
American Eugenics Society (1926-1972)
By: Rachel Gur-Arie
| Published: Nov 22, 2014
The American Eugenics Society (AES) was established in the US by Madison Grant, Harry H. Laughlin, Henry Crampton, Irving Fisher, and Henry F.…
OrganizationsEugenicsHeredity, HumanHeredityInvoluntary Sterilization