1863–1952 US biologist who laid substantial groundwork for the understanding of embryonic development and developmental biology through cell lineage studies.
Keywords: biology; embryology; cytology; cell lineage
Conklin, Edwin Grant
Kathy J Cooke, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut, USA
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002754
| Further Reading | |
| book Conklin EG (1921) The Direction of Human Evolution. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| Conklin EG (1897) The embryology of Crepidula. Journal of Morphology 13: 1–226. | |
| book Conklin EG (1915) Heredity and Environment in the Development of Men. Princeton: Princeton University Press. | |
| book Conklin EG (1953) "Spiritual autobiography". In: Finkelstein L (ed.) Thirteen Americans: Their Spiritual Autobiographies, pp. 47–76. New York: Harper and Brothers. | |
| Atkinson JW (1985) E. G. Conklin on evolution: the popular writings of an embryologist. Journal of the History of Biology 18(1): 31–50. | |
| book Cooke KJ (1994) An American Gospel of Social Evolution: Religion, Education, and Biology in the Thought of Edwin Grant Conklin. University Microfilms, PhD dissertation, University of Chicago. | |
| Harvey EN (1958) Edwin Grant Conklin. National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs 31: 54–91. | |
| book Wagers RE (1973) New Patterns of Embryological Thought: Edwin Grant Conklin, Edmund Beecher Wilson, and Thomas Hunt Morgan, 1890–1912. University Microfilms, PhD dissertation, University of Oregon. | |
