Adaptation and Natural Selection

Brief History of Evolutionary Biology


1858 Darwin and Wallace, Joint Paper at Linnean Society, London

1859 Darwin, On the Origin of Species

1866 Mendel's Laws (Mendelian genetics)

1871 Darwin, The Descent of Man

1900 Rediscovery of the Mendelian Laws by de Vries, Correns, and Tschermak

1930 Fisher, Genetical Theory of Natural Selection

1931 Wright, "Evolution in Mendelian Populations"

1932 Haldane, The Causes of Evolution

1937 Dobzhansky, Genetics and the Origin of Species

1953 Watson and Crick, "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids"

1964 Hamilton, "The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour"

 


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