Conway Zirkle

Conway Zirkle (October 28, 1895 – March 28, 1972), was an American botanist and historian of science.

Zirkle was professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania.^[1] He was highly critical of Lamarckism, Lysenkoism and Marxian biology.^[2]

Selected Publications

Books

• The Beginnings of Plant Hybridization (1935)
• Death of a Science in Russia, the Fate of Genetics as Described in "Pravda" and Elsewhere (1949)
• Evolution, Marxian Biology, and the Social Scene (1959)
• The Evolution of Biology (1964)

Papers

• Zirkle, Conway. (1935). The Inheritance of Acquired Characters and the Provisional Hypothesis of Pangenesis. American Naturalist 69: 417-445.
• Zirkle, Conway. (1936). Further Notes on Pangenesis and the Inheritance of Acquired Characters. American Naturalist 70: 529-546.
• Zirkle, Conway. (1941). Natural Selection Before the 'Origin of the Species. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association 84: 71-123.
• Zirkle, Conway. (1946). The Early History of the Idea of the Inheritance of Acquired Characters and Pangenesis. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 335: 91-151.
• Zirkle, Conway. (1947). The Theory of Concentric Spheres: Edmund Halley, Cotton Mather, & John Cleves Symmes. Isis. University of Chicago Press (on behalf of The History of Science Society) 37: 155-159.
• Zirkle, Conway. (1952). Early Ideas on Inbreeding and Crossbreeding. In Heterosis, edited by John W. Gowen, 1-13. Iowa State College Press.
• Zirkle, Conway. (1958). The First Recognized Plant Hybrid. Journal of Heredity 49: 137-138.
• Zirkle, Conway. (1959). Species Before Darwin. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 103: 636-644.

References