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Charles Benedict Davenport (1866-1944)
By: Cera R. Lawrence
| Published: May 12, 2011
Charles Benedict Davenport was an early twentieth-century experimental zoologist. Davenport founded both the Station for Experimental Evolution and…
PeopleEugenicsReproductionZoologypublic health
American Eugenics Society (1926-1972)
By: Rachel Gur-Arie
| Published: Nov 22, 2014
The American Eugenics Society (AES) was established in the US by Madison Grant, Harry H. Laughlin, Henry Crampton, Irving Fisher, and Henry F.…
OrganizationsEugenicsHeredity, HumanHeredityInvoluntary Sterilization
Wilhelm Johannsen's Genotype-Phenotype Distinction
By: B. R. Erick Peirson
| Published: Dec 07, 2012
Wilhelm Johannsen in Denmark first proposed the distinction between genotype and phenotype in the study of heredity in 1909. This distinction is…
Johannsen, W. (Wilhelm), 1857-1927Genotype-environment interactionPhenotypeHeredityGenetics
Multiplex Automated Genome Engineering (MAGE)
By: Risa Aria Schnebly
| Published: Dec 10, 2020
Multiplex Automated Genome Engineering, or MAGE, is a genome editing technique that enables scientists to quickly edit an organism’s DNA to produce…
TechnologyGenetic EngineeringGenetic engineering industryGenetic epidemiologyGene libraries
John von Neumann's Cellular Automata
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| Published: Jun 14, 2010
Cellular automata (CA) are mathematical models used to simulate complex systems or processes. In several fields, including biology, physics, and…
Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957ModelsEvolution
Karl Ernst von Baer's Laws of Embryology
By: M. Elizabeth Barnes
| Published: Apr 15, 2014
In 1828, while working at the University of Konigsberg in Konigsberg, Germany Karl Ernst von Baer proposed four laws of animal development, which…
Baer, Karl Ernst von, 1792-1876EmbryologyAnatomy, Comparative
Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844)
By: Valerie Racine
| Published: Aug 05, 2013
Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, commonly known as Geoffroy, studied animals, their anatomy and their embryos, and teratogens at the National Museum…
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Etienne, 1772-1844TeratologyZoologyFrench RevolutionHomology theory
Paul Kammerer's Experiments on Sea-squirts in the Early Twentieth Century
By: Federica Turriziani Colonna
| Published: Apr 13, 2015
In the early twentieth century, Paul Kammerer, a zoologist working at the Vivarium in Vienna, Austria, experimented on sea-squirts (Ciona…
Sea SquirtsCiona intestinalisKammerer, Paul, 1880-1926Laboratory animals--Breeding--ExperimentsAdaptation
Biological Clocks and the Formation of Human Tooth Enamel
By: Kate MacCord
| Published: Jan 31, 2013
Tooth enamel contains relics of its formation process, in the form of microstructures, which indicate the incremental way in which it forms. These…
EvolutionteethDental EnamelHuman EvolutionAnatomy
Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)
By: Valerie Racine
| Published: Jul 10, 2013
Georges Cuvier, baptized Georges Jean-Leopold Nicolas-Frederic Cuvier, was a professor of anatomy at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris…
AnatomyAnatomy, ComparativeNatural historyExtinction (Biology)Zoology