• Conrad Hal Waddington CBE FRS FRSE (8 November 1905 – 26 September 1975) was a British developmental biologist, paleontologist, geneticist, embryologist...
    25 KB (2,698 words) - 05:16, 3 November 2024
  • neologistic portmanteau term coined by the English 20th century biologist C. H. Waddington to represent the developmental pathway followed by a cell as it grows...
    6 KB (914 words) - 23:29, 5 November 2020
  • Thumbnail for Epigenetics
    meaning, and the associated adjective epigenetic, British embryologist C. H. Waddington coined the term epigenetics in 1942 as pertaining to epigenesis, in...
    160 KB (18,271 words) - 15:20, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
    D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (category Articles with hCards)
    animals and plants, stimulated thinkers as diverse as Julian Huxley, C. H. Waddington, Alan Turing, René Thom, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Eduardo Paolozzi, Le...
    37 KB (3,858 words) - 05:09, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Canalisation (genetics)
    a form of evolutionary robustness. The term was coined in 1942 by C. H. Waddington to capture the fact that "developmental reactions, as they occur in...
    18 KB (2,035 words) - 18:20, 1 September 2024
  • Robert Edwards (physiologist) (category Articles with hCards)
    was awarded a PhD in 1955 under the supervision of R.A. Beatty and C. H. Waddington. After a year as a postdoctoral research fellow at the California Institute...
    24 KB (2,115 words) - 18:00, 16 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Waddington
    William Henry Waddington (11 December 1826 – 13 January 1894) was a French statesman who served as Prime Minister in 1879, and as an Ambassador of France...
    15 KB (1,220 words) - 23:55, 3 May 2024
  • Cecil Gordon, Solly Zuckerman, (later Baron Zuckerman OM, KCB, FRS), C. H. Waddington, Owen Wansbrough-Jones, Frank Yates, Jacob Bronowski and Freeman Dyson)...
    52 KB (5,699 words) - 23:54, 22 October 2024
  • The extended evolutionary synthesis was called for in the 1950s by C. H. Waddington, argued for on the basis of punctuated equilibrium by Stephen Jay Gould...
    49 KB (4,988 words) - 12:35, 14 October 2024
  • Biology, Vol. 4, ed. by C. H. Waddington, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. Wiendahl, H.-P.; Hernández, R.; Scheffczyk, H. (1999): Die Wandlungsfähige...
    4 KB (553 words) - 15:45, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great Books of the Western World
    Genetics and the Origin of Species C. H. Waddington The Nature of Life Thorstein Veblen The Theory of the Leisure Class R. H. Tawney The Acquisitive Society...
    43 KB (4,551 words) - 20:56, 17 October 2024
  • John Lucas (philosopher) (category Articles with hCards)
    Kenny, H. C. Longuet-Higgins, and C. H. Waddington; 1972 Gifford Lectures) ISBN 0-85224-235-2 1973. The Development of Mind. (with A. J. P. Kenny, H.C.Longet-Higgins...
    12 KB (1,232 words) - 18:29, 3 November 2023
  • Caroline Humphrey (category Articles with hCards)
    FBA (née Waddington; born 1 September 1943) is a British anthropologist and academic. Humphrey's father was the biologist Conrad H. Waddington. Her mother...
    10 KB (893 words) - 08:00, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mount Waddington
    Mount Waddington, once known as Mystery Mountain, is the highest peak in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada. Although it is lower than Mount...
    17 KB (1,887 words) - 12:35, 18 October 2024
  • Edward Goldsmith (category Articles with hCards)
    Sir Frank Fraser Darling, Sir Peter Medawar, Sir Peter Scott, and C. H. Waddington, Goldsmith and his fellow editor Robert Allen made headlines in January...
    35 KB (3,638 words) - 10:00, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Modern synthesis (20th century)
    so it formed no substantial part of the modern synthesis. Though C. H. Waddington had called for embryology to be added to the synthesis in his 1953...
    74 KB (7,689 words) - 21:00, 17 October 2024
  • Vishnu-Mittre (India, 1924-1991) Charles Wachsmuth (United States, 1829-1896) C. H. Waddington (England, 1905-1975) Mary Wade (Australia, 1928-2005) Peter J. Wagner...
    38 KB (4,332 words) - 15:11, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance
    evolutionary synthesis (unifying Mendelian genetics and natural selection), C. H. Waddington (1905–1975) was working to unify developmental biology and genetics...
    88 KB (10,380 words) - 03:17, 13 July 2024
  • are analogous to plant calluses, after limb amputation. In the 1940s C. H. Waddington created the “Epigenetic Landscape”, a diagrammatic representation of...
    23 KB (2,692 words) - 23:19, 17 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Evesham
    Crown, died at the Battle of Evesham and was buried in Evesham Abbey. C. H. Waddington, biologist born in Evesham in 1905. John Watson (bishop) was born in...
    60 KB (6,144 words) - 01:52, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
    Flora Robson, Michael Tippett, the cartoonist 'Vicky', Professor C. H. Waddington and Barbara Wootton. Other prominent founding members of CND were Fenner...
    62 KB (7,386 words) - 13:21, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Baldwin effect
    different evolutionary theory also based on phenotypic plasticity, C. H. Waddington's genetic assimilation. The Baldwin effect includes genetic accommodation...
    20 KB (2,133 words) - 15:51, 28 October 2024
  • Adam S. G. Curtis (category Articles with hCards)
    his PhD, studying in its Institute of Animal Genetics under advisors C. H. Waddington and Geoffrey Selman. He then returned to London to complete a post-doctoral...
    7 KB (659 words) - 01:16, 2 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Ronald Fisher
    Ronald Fisher (category Articles with hCards)
    of C. H. Waddington, Gavin de Beer, Ernst Mayr, and Richard Dawkins. Department History, Department of Statistics, University College London. Mann, H.B...
    83 KB (8,877 words) - 19:24, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for University of Edinburgh
    Hematology (William Hewson), Dermatology (Robert Willan), Epigenetics (C. H. Waddington), Gestalt psychology (Kurt Koffka), Thermodynamics (William Rankine)...
    244 KB (19,170 words) - 18:33, 10 November 2024
  • Nov Can Science Be Creative? C. H. Waddington, Frank Sherwood-Taylor 28 Nov Physics and philosophy, Lord Cherwell, J. C. Stuart Hilary Term, 1950 23 Jan...
    13 KB (1,783 words) - 19:30, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arthur Koestler
    a group of high-profile antireductionist scientists, including C. H. Waddington, W. H. Thorpe and Ludwig von Bertalanffy, for a meeting at his retreat...
    75 KB (9,563 words) - 08:09, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Evolutionary developmental biology
    Plant evolutionary developmental biology Recapitulation theory Though C. H. Waddington had called for embryology to be added to the synthesis in his 1953...
    57 KB (6,279 words) - 02:33, 31 October 2024
  • Upadhyaya, medical geneticist Colin S. Valentine, medical missionary C. H. Waddington, eminent developmental biologist John Walker, naturalist Joanna Wardlaw...
    135 KB (12,684 words) - 20:43, 6 November 2024
  • environmental issues. The IBP was organized under the leadership of C. H. Waddington beginning in 1962 and officially started in 1964, with the goal of...
    4 KB (482 words) - 08:20, 4 May 2024