Conrad Hal Waddington CBE FRS FRSE (8 November 1905 – 26 September 1975) was a British developmental biologist, paleontologist, geneticist, embryologist...
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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...
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Epigenetics (redirect from Waddington's landscape)
meaning, and the associated adjective epigenetic, British embryologist C. H. Waddington coined the term epigenetics in 1942 as pertaining to epigenesis, in...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Cecil Gordon, Solly Zuckerman, (later Baron Zuckerman OM, KCB, FRS), C. H. Waddington, Owen Wansbrough-Jones, Frank Yates, Jacob Bronowski and Freeman Dyson)...
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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...
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Biology, Vol. 4, ed. by C. H. Waddington, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. Wiendahl, H.-P.; Hernández, R.; Scheffczyk, H. (1999): Die Wandlungsfähige...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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List of paleontologists (section H)
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...
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evolutionary synthesis (unifying Mendelian genetics and natural selection), C. H. Waddington (1905–1975) was working to unify developmental biology and genetics...
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are analogous to plant calluses, after limb amputation. In the 1940s C. H. Waddington created the “Epigenetic Landscape”, a diagrammatic representation of...
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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...
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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (redirect from C.N.D.)
Flora Robson, Michael Tippett, the cartoonist 'Vicky', Professor C. H. Waddington and Barbara Wootton. Other prominent founding members of CND were Fenner...
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different evolutionary theory also based on phenotypic plasticity, C. H. Waddington's genetic assimilation. The Baldwin effect includes genetic accommodation...
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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...
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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...
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Hematology (William Hewson), Dermatology (Robert Willan), Epigenetics (C. H. Waddington), Gestalt psychology (Kurt Koffka), Thermodynamics (William Rankine)...
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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...
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a group of high-profile antireductionist scientists, including C. H. Waddington, W. H. Thorpe and Ludwig von Bertalanffy, for a meeting at his retreat...
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Plant evolutionary developmental biology Recapitulation theory Though C. H. Waddington had called for embryology to be added to the synthesis in his 1953...
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Upadhyaya, medical geneticist Colin S. Valentine, medical missionary C. H. Waddington, eminent developmental biologist John Walker, naturalist Joanna Wardlaw...
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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...
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