WILLIAM BATESON ON DARWINISM

William Bateson (1861-1926)

At the turn of the twentieth century, William Bateson [3] studied organismal variation and heredity of traits within the framework of evolutionary theory in England. Bateson applied Gregor Mendel's work to Charles Darwin [4]'s theory of evolution [5] and coined the term genetics for a new biological discipline. By studying variation and advocating Mendelian genetics, Bateson furthered the field...

Evolution by jumps: Francis Galton and William Bateson and the mechanism of evolutionary change.

FRANCIS Galton (1822–1911) genuinely disagreed were retrospective rather than prospective maps, and one such map led to his discovery of the anticyclone. with his cousin Charles Darwin concerning the mechanism of evolutionary change (see Crow 1993; Darwin’s influence was critical at several points in Galton’s career. It was Darwin who convinced him to Maynard-Smith 1993; Gillham 2001). He felt ...

Darwinism and social Darwinism.

Melissa Bateson

1. Simberloff, D. (2003). Confronting introduced species: a form of xenophobia? Biol. Invasions 5, 179–192. 2. Davis, M.A., Chew, M.K., Hobbs, R.J., Lugo, A.E., Ewel, JJ., Vermeij, G.J., Brown, J.H., Rosenzweig, M.L., Gardener, M.R., Carroll, S.P., et al. (2011). Don’t judge species on their origins. Nature 474, 153–154. 3. Bailey, J. (2013). The rise and fall of Japanese knotweed. In Invasive ...

Patrick Bateson

5. Ribeiro, M.C., Metzger, J.P., Martensen, A.C., and Ponzoni, F.J. (2009). The Brazilian Atlantic Forest: How much is left, and how is the remaining forest distributed? Implications for conservation. Biol. Conserv. 142, 1141–1153. 6. Dean, W. (1996). With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. University of California Press, California. 7. Fowlie, M. (2014). N...