International Phytogeographic Excursion (Botany 🌱)

The International Phytogeographic Excursions was a series of international meetings in plant geography that significantly contributed to exchange of scientific ideas across national and linguistic barriers and also to the rise of Anglo-American plant ecology. The initiative was taken b...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phytogeographic_Excursion

#InternationalPhytogeographicExcursion #Botany #HistoryOfBiology #EcologyOrganizations

Extended evolutionary synthesis (Evolution 🧬)

The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis consists of a set of theoretical concepts argued to be more comprehensive than the earlier modern synthesis of evolutionary biology that took place between 1918 and 1942. The extended evolutionary synthesis was called for in the 1950s by C. H. Waddington, argued for on the...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_evolutionary_synthesis

#ExtendedEvolutionarySynthesis #Evolution #BiologyTheories #HistoryOfBiology

Gregor Mendel: "Hmm, inheritance. Peas seem to be working well. Time to test my hypothesis with mice."
*starts to breed mice secretly in his cell*
Abbot: "Where do all these mice come from... Gregor?"
Gregor: „…yes?"
Abbot: *raises eyebrow*
Gregor: "Seriously, I didn't think they could escape!“
Abbot: *sighs* "Could you please stop that? What about your peas? Your peas seemed great... please stick with your peas.“

#GregorMendelProbably
#IncorrectQuotes
#HistoryofBiology
#PoorMendel

Ohno's law (Genetics 🧬)

Ohno's law was proposed by a Japanese-American biologist Susumu Ohno, saying that the gene content of the mammalian species has been conserved over species not only in the DNA content but also in the genes themselves. That is, nearly all mammalian species have conserved the X chromosome from their primordial X chromosome of a common ancestor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohno's_law

#OhnoSLaw #Genetics #BiologyTheories #HistoryOfBiology #EvolutionaryBiology

Garland Allen RIP 1936-2023 An important #historianofscience Wrote the definitive biography of #ThomasHuntMorgan . #Mentor for newbies like me interested in the #HistoryofBiology Historian of #AmericanEugenics (too bad current geneticists haven't read his work)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garland_E._Allen and

https://source.wustl.edu/2023/02/obituary-garland-allen-professor-emeritus-of-biology-86/?fbclid=IwAR34oWf4enUY3qeya5oBEQ4Cg65NdEWKfFH5sL9z5lLAc9ZWWn51RmLNU2Y