1900–1975 Russian-born American naturalist and evolutionist, who pioneered the field of population genetics.
Keywords: evolution; population genetics; drosophila; morgan; sturtevant
Dobzhansky, Theodosius
EG Winchester, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002473
| Further Reading | |
| Dobzhansky T (1933) Geographical variation in lady-beetles. American Naturalist 67: 97–126. | |
| book Dobzhansky T (1937) Genetics and the Origin of Species. New York: Columbia University Press. | |
| book Dobzhansky T (1962) Mankind Evolving: The Evolution of the Human Species. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. | |
| book Adams MB ed. (1995) The Evolution of Theodosius Dobzhansky. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. | |
| Alaya FJ (1985) Theodosius Dobzhansky. Biographical Memoirs, National Academy of Sciences 55: 163–213. | |
| Da Cunha AB (1998) On Dobzhansky and his evolution. Biology and Philosophy 13: 289–300. | |
| book Glass B (ed.) (1980) The Roving Naturalist: Travel Letters of Theodosius Dobzhansky. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. | |
| Lewontin RC (1987) Polymorphism and heterosis: old wine in new bottles and vice versa. Journal for the History of Biology 20: 337–349. | |
| book Lewontin RC, Moore JA, Provine WB and Wallace B (eds) (1981) Dobzhansky's Genetics of Natural Populations. New York: Columbia University Press. | |
| book Mayr E and Provine WB (eds) (1980) The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. | |
