The Interpretation of Development and Heredity

1930 FIRST EDITION OF CONTRARIAN SCOTTISH BIOLOGIST AND PHILOSOPHER WHO DISAGREED WITH MERGING MENDELIAN GENETICS AND EVOLUTION IN THE MODERN SYNTHESIS. 8 3/4 inches hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, [viii], 312 pp, scattered light spots to covers, corners bumped, spine gilt bright, binding tight, pages crisp and unmarked, very good. EDWARD STUART RUSSELL (1887 - 1954) was a Scottish biologist and philosopher of biology. He studied at Greenock Academy and later at Glasgow University under Sir Graham Kerr and worked with J. Arthur Thompson after he graduated. He was influenced by his friend Patrick Geddes and in his zoological studies, sought to find holistic principles. He also believed in Lamarckian heritability. He was involved in fishery research, working on research vessels and publishing on the biology of cephalopods and quantitative methods for gathering fishery data. He was an honorary lecturer on animal behavior at the University College, London for about fifteen years. He was elected President of the Zoology section of the British Association in 1934. From 1940 to 1942, he served as the President of the Linnean Society. Russell favored holism and organicism. He was a critic of the modern synthesis and presented his own evolutionary theory uniting developmental biology with heredity but opposing Mendelian inheritance. He was influenced by Karl Ernst von Baer and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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Publisher: Clarendon Press

Year: 1930

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Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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