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William B. Provine

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Bachelors History University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, William Ball Provine was an American historian of science and of evolutionary biology and population genetics. He was the Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor at Cornell University and was a professor in the Departments of History, Science and Technology Studies, and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

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William B. Provine's Published Works

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The Evolutionary synthesis : perspectives on the unification of biology (1980) (714)
The Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics (1972) (485)
Sewall Wright and evolutionary biology (1987) (412)
Ernst Mayr: Genetics and speciation. (2004) (112)
Geneticists and the Biology of Race Crossing (1973) (98)
Dobzhansky's genetics of natural populations I-XLIII (1981) (93)
Evolution: Selected Papers (1986) (62)
Geneticists and Race (1986) (59)
The R. A. Fisher—Sewall Wright Controversy (1992) (42)
The origins of theoretical population genetics : with a new afterword (2001) (35)
Ernst Mayr, a retrospective. (2005) (32)
Alfred Henry Sturtevant and crosses between Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans. (1991) (27)
Evolution, religion and free will (2007) (27)
Role of Mathematical Population Geneticists in the Evolutionary Synthesis of the 1930’s and 40’s (1977) (24)
The role of mathematical population geneticists in the evolutionary synthesis of the 1930s and 1940s. (1978) (19)
Chapter 28. Adaptation and Mechanisms of Evolution After Darwin: A Study in Persistent Controversies (1988) (17)
Francis B. Sumner and the evolutionary synthesis. (1979) (10)
The Origin of Dobzhansky's Genetics and the Origin of Species (1994) (8)
Adaptive Speciation: Speciation in Historical Perspective (2004) (5)
Influence of Darwin's Ideas on the Study of Evolution (1982) (4)
3.1 Mechanisms of Speciation: A Review (1991) (4)
Evolution, Religion, and Science (2008) (4)
Discussion:Population genetics (1990) (3)
Mechanisms of Speciation: A Review (1991) (2)
How Biology was Unified@@@The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology. (1981) (1)
An Attempt to Limit Research: Antivivisection and Medical Science in Victorian Society . Richard D. French. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1975. xiv, 426 pp. Cloth, $20; paper, $9.95. (1975) (0)
Book Review:Genetics and American Society: A Historical Appraisal Kenneth M. Ludmerer (1974) (0)
Sewall Wright and the Research Agenda of Population Genetics@@@Sewall Wright and Evolutionary Biology. (1988) (0)
Facts Bearing on Darwin's Illness. (1977) (0)
Scientific supernaturalism (1993) (0)
The neutral Theories of Molecular Evolution and Unity in Biology (1996) (0)
SEWALL WRIGHT AND POPULATION STRUCTURE IN RELATION TO EVOLUTION (1988) (0)
Discussion: Population genetics (1990) (0)
Missing some of Darwin's brilliance (1975) (0)
Western geneticists ‘discover’ Kimura (1996) (0)
Spring Systematics Symposium Field Museum of Natural History (2016) (0)
The Evolution of Population Biology: Geneticists and the biology of race, 1900–1924 (2004) (0)
Review of Elliott Sober's Evidence and Evolution: the Logic Behind the Science (2009) (0)

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