Theodosius Grigorievich Dobzhansky

xix, 390 p. : 24 cm

Geneticist. Topics include: childhood and education in Russia; early interest in genetics; experiences during revolutionary and post revolutionary years; training in genetics in Russia; Rockefeller fellowship to work in United States, 1928; California Institute of Technology, 1930-1940; professor of zoology, Columbia University, 1940. Detailed descriptions of work with T.H. Morgan, A.H. Sturtevant, and C.B. Bridges. Problems of artificial selection; racism; Zoology Department, Columbia University, 1940-1962; research in California, Mexico, Brazil; Latin American scientists; travels to New Guinea, Australia, Egypt, India, Indonesia. Impressions of noted scientists.

Examines both the biological and the cultural aspects of human evolution.

"'An outgrowth of a symposium held at the meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington on December 30,1966.'"

"I wish to examine some philosophical implications of certain biological and anthropological findings and theories. This book lays no claim to being a treatise either on philosophical biology or on biological philosophy. It consists of essays on those particular aspects of science which have been particularly influential in the formation of my personal credo"--Page 11.

On half t.p.: Page-Barbour lectures for 1954 at the University of Virginia. Bibliography: p. -139.