The integration of Darwinism and evolutionary morphology: Alexej Nikolajevich Sewertzoff (1866-1936) and the developmental basis of evolutionary change.
The growth of evolutionary morphology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was inspired by the work of Carl Gegenbaur (1826-1903) and his protégé and friend Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919). However, neither of them succeeded in creating and applying a strictly Darwinian (selectionist) methodology. This task was left to the next generation of evolutionary morphologists. In this paper we present a relatively unknown researcher, Alexej Nikolajevich Sewertzoff (1866-1936) who made important contributions towards a synthesis of Darwinism and evolutionary morphology.
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Institüt fur Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik Ernst-Haeckel-Haus, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, D-07745 Jena, Germany.
Hossfeld
Uwe
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Olsson
Lennart
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D000717:Anatomy, Comparative / Q000266:history*; D005075:Biological Evolution; D005314:Embryonic and Fetal Development; D006321:Heart / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D010802:Phylogeny; D012641:Selection, Genetic