Julian Huxley: developmental genetics and the theory of evolution

Yasha Gall

Resumen


Julian Huxley was one of the architects of developmental genetics. Moreover, he was looking for the correlation between such developmental genetics and evolutionary theory. We have studied Julian Huxley’s article “Natural selection and evolutionary progress” (1936). The textological analysis has led us to the conclusion that the article belongs to the fundamental works of the evolutionary synthesis.

 Key words: Julian Sorell Huxley, developmental genetics, theory of evolution, neoteny, rate of gene.

 


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