Haldane, Mayr, and beanbag genetics /

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Author / Creator:Dronamraju, Krishna R.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 274 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11234315
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ISBN:9780199813346
0199813345
9780195387346
0195387341
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-198) and index.
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Summary:Haldane, Mayr, and Beanbag Genetics presents a summary of the classic exchange between two great biologists - J.B.S. Haldane and Ernst Mayr - regarding the value of the contributions of the mathematical school represented by J.B.S. Haldane, R.A. Fisher and S. Wright to the theory of evolution. Their pioneering contributions from 1918 to the 1960s dominated and shaped the field of population genetics, unique in the annals of science. In 1959, Mayr questioned what he regarded as the beanbag genetic approach of these pioneers to evolutionary theory, "an input or output of genes, as the addin.
Other form:Print version: Dronamraju, Krishna R. Haldane, Mayr, and beanbag genetics. New York : Oxford University Press, 2011 9780195387346