"Mutation"
Lecture
By: Charles B. Davenport
Date: January 1, 1909
Source: Davenport, Charles B. "Mutation." One of a series of centennial addresses in honor of Charles Darwin, given before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Baltimore, January 1, 1909. Printed in Fifty Years of Darwinism: Modern Aspects of Evolution. New York: Henry Holt, 1909, 160–161.
About the Author: Charles Benedict Davenport (1866–1944) was born in Stamford, Connecticut, and received a Ph.D. in zoology from Harvard University in 1892. He taught there until 1899, when he became professor of zoology at the University of Chicago. From 1904 to 1934, he directed the department of genetics for the Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, New York, where he founded the Eugenics Record Office.
Introduction
Life reproduces in two ways: cell division and sex. In...
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