A most bountiful source of inspiration
Dobzhansky’s evolution of tropical populations, and the science and politics of genetic variation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7799528 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tito Carvalho (0000-0003-1616-0802, University of California, United States, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 281-297 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | História Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0104-5970 • E-ISSN: 1678-4758 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/s0104-59702019000100016 |
| PMID | 30942315 |
| OpenAlex | W2925473438 |
| SCIELO_PID | S0104-59702019000100281 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 40 |
Theodosius Dobzhansky has been studied for how he integrated field naturalism and laboratory experimentation in ways that helped produce the Modern Synthesis, as well as how he leveraged biological expertise to support liberal and cosmopolitan values amidst Second World War and the Cold War. Moreover, Dobzhansky has been central in analyses of the institutionalization of genetics in Brazil, where he spent several years. This article situates Dobzhansky’s Brazilian research within the science of variation and the politics of diversity. I conclude by raising questions about how the ways in which science figured in politics depended on ideas about the role of scientists in society whichwere advanced in parallel, suggesting research on the “co-production” of natural and social orders
Biology · Evolutionary biology · Gene · Genetic variation · Physics · Political science · Politics · Variation (astronomy) · Genetics · History of Science and Medicine · Philosophy and History of Science · Race, Genetics, and Society
Mankind Evolving
The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm
The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change
The Evolutionary Synthesis
Weighing the risks
Pharmacogenomics, human genetic diversity and the incorporation and rejection of color/race in Brazil
Theodosius Dobzhansky and the genetic race concept
Genetic Diversity and Human Equality
Race Unmasked
The emergence of human population genetics and narratives about the formation of the Brazilian nation (1950-1960)
Systematics and the Origin of Species from the View-Point of a Zoologist
Eugenics and the Left
O Programa Brasileiro de genética evolucionária de populações, de Theodosius Dobzhansky
História da genética no Brasil
The Xavante in perspective
Varieties of the Primitive
On the Non-Existence of Human Races
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |