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Dob·zhan·sky (d

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), Theodosius 1900-1975.

Russian-born American geneticist. His Genetics and the Origin of the Species (1937) synthesized Mendel's laws of heredity and Darwinian theory. He is also known for his study of the fruit fly Drosophilia, which showed a large degree of genetic variation within a population.

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With the advancement of a reasonably comprehensive account of the evolutionary process by Theodosius Dobzhansky in his book Genetics and the Origin of Species, (19) the evolutionary theory started being understood and appreciated as the genetic change in populations.

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Shaping science with rhetoric: The cases of Dobzhansky, Schrodinger,, and Wilson.

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Ruse points out, for example, that among the "top ten" evolutionists since Darwin we will find such ardent Christians as Theodosius Dobzhansky and Ronald Fisher.

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