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Carl Richard Moore (1892-1955)
By: Mary Drago
| Published: Feb 18, 2014
Carl Richard Moore was a professor and researcher at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois who studied sex hormones in animals from 1916…
Moore, Carl R. (Carl Richard), 1892-1955Intersexuality in animalsIntersex peopleHormones, SexSex Differentiation
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
By: Samantha Hauserman
| Published: Nov 26, 2013
In nineteenth century Great Britain, Thomas Henry Huxley proposed connections between the development of organisms and their evolutionary histories,…
PeopleDarwin, Charles, 1809-1882EvolutionpaleontologyEmbryology
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (2001)
By: Marci Baranski
| Published: Oct 07, 2013
The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, referred to as the Plant Treaty, was approved on 3 November 2001 by…
LawGermplasm resources, PlantGermplasm resources, Plant--Law and legislationbiodiversityUnited Nations associations
Infantile Autism: The Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior (1964), by Bernard Rimland
By: Sean Cohmer
| Published: May 23, 2014
Infantile Autism: The Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior (hereafter Infantile Autism) is a book written by Bernard Rimland…
LiteratureAutism in childrenAutismAutism spectrum disordersChildren with autism spectrum disorders
MicroSort
By: Alysse Blight
| Published: Jul 09, 2019
"MicroSort, developed in 1990 by the Genetics and IVF Institute, is a form of pre-conception sex selection technology for humans. Laboratories…
Technologyin vitroFertilization in vitro, HumanFertilization in VitroSperm donors
Stafford Leak Warren (1896–1981)
By: Meilin Zhu
| Published: Aug 30, 2017
Stafford Leak Warren studied nuclear medicine in the United States during the twentieth century. He used radiation to make images of the body for…
Warren, Stafford L. (Stafford Leak), 1896-1981RadiologyMedical radiologyRadiology--ResearchCancer--Interventional radiology
“Annual Research Review: Prenatal Stress and the Origins of Psychopathology: An Evolutionary Perspective” (2011), by Vivette Glover
By: Carrie Keller
| Published: May 02, 2020
In 2011, fetal researcher Vivette Glover published “Annual Research Review: Prenatal Stress and the Origins of Psychopathology: An Evolutionary…
LiteratureStress in adolescenceStress in youthPsychological StressPregnancy
“Sources of Human Psychological Differences: The Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart” (1990), by Thomas J. Bouchard Jr, David T. Lykken, Matthew McGue, Nancy L. Segal and Auke Tellegen
By: Mudhaffar Bahjat
| Published: Oct 19, 2017
In 1990, Thomas J. Bouchard and his colleagues published the paper “Sources of Human Psychological Differences: The Minnesota Study of Twins Reared…
LiteratureNature and nurtureGeneticsHeredityTwin Study
The Neuron Doctrine (1860-1895)
By: Isra Mishqat
| Published: Jun 15, 2017
The neuron doctrine is a concept formed during the turn of the twentieth century that describes the properties of neurons, the specialized cells that…
NeuronsAxonsDendritesNervous SystemSynapses
Alfred Henry Sturtevant (1891–1970)
By: Kevin Gleason
| Published: May 20, 2017
Alfred Henry Sturtevant studied heredity in fruit flies in the US throughout the twentieth century. From 1910 to 1928, Sturtevant worked in Thomas…
DrosophilaHeredityInheritance of acquired charactersColumbia University--Graduate studentsMutation