Program in the History and Philosophy of Science

History of Genetics

Participants:

Jen Anderson, Thomas Bataillon, Melinda Fagan, David Hall, Sarah Joseph, Gabriel Kerreira, Mark Kirkpatrick, Scott Nuismer, Ian Nyberg, Ophelie Ronce, Sahotra Sarkar, Anne Tsitrone

Fall 2000

September 7

Hardy, G. H. (1908), "Mendelian Proportions in a Mixed Population", Science 28: 49 -50.

Weinberg, W. (1908), "On the Demonstration of Heredity in Man", Jahreshefte des Vereins für Vaterländische 64: 368 -82.

September 18

Morgan, T. H. (1910), "Sex Limited Inheritance in Drosophila", Science 32:120 -22.

October 4

Sturtevant, A. H. (1913), "The Linear Arrangement of Six Sex-Linked Factors in Drosophila, as Shown by Their Mode of Association", Journal of Experimental Zoology 14: 43 -59.

Muller, H. J. (1922), "Variation Due to Change in the Individual Gene", American Naturalist 56: 32 -50.

October 11

Bridges, Calvin B. (1925), "Sex in Relation to Chromosomes and Genes", American Naturalist 59: 127 -37.

Sturtevant, A. H. (1925), "The Effects of Unequal Crossing Over at the Bar Locus in Drosophila", Genetics 10: 117 -47.

October 15

Haldane, J. B. S. (1930), "A Mathematical Theory of Natural and Artificial Selection", Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 26: 220 -30.

November 8

Fisher, R. A. (1931), "The Evolution of Dominance", Biological Reviews 6: 345 -68.

November 22

Wright, Sewall. (1932), "The Roles of Mutation, Inbreeding, Crossbreading and Selection in Evolution", Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of Genetics 1: 356 -66.

Wright, Sewall. (1940), "Breeding Structure of Populations in Relation to Speciation", American Naturalist 74: 232 -48.

Spring 2001

February 13

Luria, S. E. and Delbruck, M. (1943), "Mutations of Bacteria from Virus Sensitivity to Virus Resistance", Genetics 28: 491 -511.

Februry 27

Tatum, E. L. and Lederberg, J. (1947), "Gene Recombination in the Bacterium Escherichia coli", Journal of Bacteriology 53: 673 -694.

March 20

Muller, H. J. (1950), "Our Load of Mutations." American Journal of Human Genetics 2: 111 -76.

April 3

Watson, J. D. and Crick, F. H. C. 1953. "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids. A Structure for Deoxyribonucleic Acid." Nature 171: 737 -738.

Watson, J. D. and Crick, F. H. C. 1953. "Genetical Implications of the Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid." Nature 171: 964 -967.

Watson, J. D. and Crick, F. H. C. 1953. "The Structure of DNA." Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 18: 123 -131.

May 1

Crick, Griffith, and Orgel (1957), "Codes without Commas", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 43: 416 -421.

Maynard Smith (1999), "Too Good to be True", Nature 400: 223.