Timeline: Hermann Joseph Muller, evolutionist.
This essay is dedicated to the proposition that Hermann Joseph Muller, widely regarded as the greatest geneticist of the first half-century of the subject, was also one of the greatest evolutionists of this period. His Nobel Prize-winning work, which showed that radiation increases the mutation rate, is in every genetics textbook, and his prescient ideas have influenced almost every aspect of the discipline. Here I emphasize his less well-known contribution to the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution.
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James F
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Genetics Laboratory, 425G Henry Mall, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA. jfcrow@wisc.edu
D005075:Biological Evolution; D018628:Gene Dosage / Q000235:genetics; D005796:Genes; D005823:Genetics / Q000266:history*; D005828:Genetics, Population; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009154:Mutation / Q000235:genetics; D012098:Reproduction / Q000235:genetics; D013045:Species Specificity