"The Present Evolution of Man"
Journal article
By: Theodosius Dobzhansky
Date: September 1960
Source: Dobzhansky, Theodosius. "The Present Evolution of Man." Scientific American 203, no. 3, September 1960, 206–217.
About the Author: Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975) was born in Nemirov, Ukraine, and in 1927 immigrated to the United States, where he joined Columbia University as a Rockefeller Fellow. He became a U.S. citizen in 1937 and professor of zoology at Columbia University in 1942. In 1962, he moved to Rockefeller University and in 1971 to the University of California, Davis.
Introduction
According to Harvard University evolutionary biologist and historian of biology Ernest Mayr, nothing deflates pride more than the thought that humans evolved from a hairy quadruped that foraged in trees. Yet even before British naturalist Charles Darwin published On the Origin of...
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