E. S. Russell
Edward Stuart Russell | |
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| Born | 25 March 1887 |
| Died | 24 August 1954 (aged 67) |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Glasgow |
| Known for | Some theoretical considerations on the "overfishing" problem[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Fisheries science, evolutionary biology |
| Institutions | Fisheries Laboratory, Lowestoft |
Edward Stuart Russell
Russell was born near Glasgow. He studied at
Russell favored holism and organicism.[5] He was a critic of the modern synthesis and presented his own evolutionary theory uniting developmental biology with heredity but opposing Mendelian inheritance. He was influenced by Karl Ernst von Baer and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.[6] He saw teleology as inherent in the organism.[7]
Books
- Form and Function: A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology (1916)
- The Study of Living Things: Prolegomena to a Functional Biology (1924)
- The Interpretation of Development and Heredity: A Study in Biological Method (1930)
- The Behavior of Animals (1934)
- The Directiveness of Organic Activities (1945)
- The Diversity of Animals: An Evolutionary Study (1962)
References
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- ^ "Fisheries Scientist". The Glasgow Herald. 27 August 1954. p. 8.
- S2CID 28329316.
- S2CID 17780722.
- ^ Bruce, W. Robin. (2014). A reflection on biological thought: whatever happened to the organism?. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 112 (2): 354–365.
External links
- Reviews Archived 23 June 2017 at the Wayback Machine
- Works by Edward Stuart Russell at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about E. S. Russell at Internet Archive
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