Richard Goldschmidt
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Richard Benedict Goldschmidt (April 12, 1878 – April 24, 1958) was a Jewish-German-American geneticist.
Born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, Goldschmidt advanced a model of macroevolution through macromutations that is popularly known as the "Hopeful Monster" hypothesis. It was not generally accepted by the scientific community, and was ridiculed by some.
At about the time that Stephen J. Gould proposed his theory of punctuated equilibrium, he predicted that Goldschmidt would be vindicated. Gould authored an article entitled, The Return of the Hopeful Monsters.
Goldschmidt also described the nervous system of the nemadtode, a piece of work that later influenced Sydney Brenner to study the wiring diagram of C. elegans, an achievement that later won Brenner and his colleagues the Nobel Prize in 2002.
Bibliography
- Goldschmidt, R. (1917). “Intersexuality and the endocrine aspect of sex”. Endrocrinology 1: 433-456
- Goldschmidt, R. (1923). The Mechanism and Physiology of Sex Determination, Methuen & Co., London. (Translated by William Dakin.)
- Goldschmidt, R. (1931). Die sexuellen Zwischenstufen, Springer, Berlin.
- Goldschmidt, R. (1960) In and Out of the Ivory Tower, Univ. of Washington Press, Seattle.
- Goldschmidt, R. (1934) “Lymantria”. Bibliographia Genetica 111: 1-185
- Goldschmidt, R. (1929).“Experimentelle mutation und das problem der sogenannten paralleinduktion. versuche an Drosophila”. Biologischen Zentralblatt 49: 437–448
- Goldschmidt, R. (1946). “‘An empirical evolutionary generalization’ viewed from the standpoint of phenogenetics”. Am. Nat. 80: 305
References
- Stern, Curt (1969). Richard Benedict Goldschmidt. Perspect Biol Med. 12(2): 179-203. [link]
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