Darlington, Cyril Dean

Michael Ruse, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA

Published online: September 2006

DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0006241

Darlington, Cyril Dean (1903–1981) British cytologist who worked on the formation of the sex cells.

Keywords: genetics; cytology; chromosome; culture; evolution

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Further Reading
	book Darlington CD (1932) Recent Advances in Cytology, with foreword by JBS Haldane. London, UK: Churchill.
	book Darlington CD (1939) The Evolution of Genetic Systems. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
	book Darlington CD (1959) Darwin's Place in History. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
	book Darlington CD (1969) The Evolution of Man and Society. London, UK: Allen and Unwin.
	book Mayr E and William P (eds.) (1980) The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
	book Olby RC (1990) "Cyril Dean Darlington". In: Gillespie CC (editor in chief) The Dictionary of Scientific Biography (Supplement II), pp. 203–209. New York, NY: Charles Scribners' Sons.
	book Ruse M (1996) Monad to Man: The Concept of Progress in Evolutionary Biology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.