Chromosomes and Genes
Evolution and Genetics
Nonfiction work
By: Thomas Hunt Morgan
Date: 1925
Source: Morgan, Thomas Hunt. Evolution and Genetics. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2d revised ed., 1925, 117–118. (First published as A Critique of the Theory of Evolution. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1916. Based on the Louis Clark Vanuxem Foundation lectures, delivered at Princeton University, February 24, March 1, 8, 15, 1916.)
About the Author: Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866–1945) was born in Kentucky and received a Ph.D. in embryology from Johns Hopkins University in 1891. In 1904 he became professor of experimental zoology at Columbia University, where his experiments with fruit flies became a cornerstone of genetics and won him the 1933 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. In 1928 he became professor of biology at the California Institute...
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