Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers (1821–1901), the father of experimental zoology and founder of the marine stations of Roscoff and Banyuls

The dominant role of comparative physiology (syn. experimental zoology) in the recent history of animal biology is noted. Its objectives, e.g. of contributing to knowledge of phylogenetic relationships and of discovering the origins of physiological functions, are considered to have been largely illusory when the data are examined. It is argued that in reality comparative physiology is concerned only with the description of adaptations, albeit at a sophisticated technical and conceptual level compared with natural history or general morphology. Comparative physiology has not produced any special theory or general explanation for physiological adaptation going beyond Darwin's general theory of natural selection.

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Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Comparative Experimental Biology

10.1002/(issn)1552-499x ◽

2006 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Keyword(s):

Experimental Biology ◽

Experimental Zoology

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Story about how Filipchenco got along with Morgan and sent to him Dobzhansky, how Koltsov directed to Germany Timofeev-Ressovsky, who advised Muller to go to Vavilov in Leningrad and what came out of it

Ecological genetics ◽

10.17816/ecogen245-11 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 5-11 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sergey G Inge-Vechtomov

Keyword(s):

Mutation Process ◽

Contemporary Theory ◽

Experimental Zoology ◽

Scientific Schools ◽

Personal Relations ◽

Students First

Genetic school of Leningrad-St.-Petersburg University had been shaped up on the background and simultaneously as a witness of achievements of the Russian genetics in 20-30-th of the XX century. The process had been strongly influenced by the personal relations of Yu.A. Filipchenko, the founder of department of genetics and experimental zoology of Petrograd University, with Russian (N.K. Koltsov, N.r. Vavilov at al.) and foreign (Т.Н. Morgan and his students first of all) colleagues. An episode is presented about formation of contemporary theory of mutation process by the efforts and cooperation of several scientific schools: by work of G.J. Muller, N.V. Timofeev-Ressovsky, M.E. Lobashev etc

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