the erroneous account of my hormone theory of heredity given by Prof. T. H. Morgan in his memoir on Secondary Sexual Characters, Carnegie Institution, No. 285, 1919. At that date Prof. Morgan ...

An accepted theory that chromosomes are the material of inheritance, and that they are associated in paternal-maternal pairings; dervied from the collective work of Boveri, Sutton, and Morgan.

Along with Theodosius Dobzhansky, George Gaylord Simpson, and others, Mayr achieved the "modern synthesis" in the 1930s and 1940s that integrated Mendel's theory of heredity with Darwin's theory ...

And Darwin knew that the lack of an explanation for heredity left a big gap in his theory of natural selection. In one of the great triumphs of scientific experimentation, Austrian biologist and ...

New research has shown that modern humans descend from not one but two separate ancient human ancestral lineages.

Charles Darwin studied animals from the Galapagos Islands such as the giant tortoise before developing his theory of evolution through natural selection Genetic information is passed down from ...

It's time for researchers to reconsider the current paradigm of cancer as a genetic disease, argues Sui Huang from the ...