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Ivan Schmalhausen
Ivan Schmalhausen | |
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| Born | Иван Иванович Шмальгаузен April 23, 1884 Kiev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | October 7, 1963 (aged 79) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Citizenship | Russian, later Soviet |
| Alma mater | Kiev University |
| Known for | stabilizing selection, modern synthesis, books "Factors of Evolution: the Theory of Stabilizing Selection" (1946) and "The Organism as a Whole in its Individual and Historical Development" (1938) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Zoologist, evolutionist |
| Institutions | Institute of Zoology (Kiev), Kiev University, University of Tartu, Moscow University, Institute of Evolutionary Morphology (Moscow), Zoological Institute (Leningrad) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alexey Severtzov |
| Doctoral students | Boris Balinsky |
Ivan Ivanovich Schmalhausen (Russian: Ива́н Ива́нович Шмальга́узен; 23 April 1884 – 7 October 1963) was a Ukrainian and later Soviet zoologist and evolutionary biologist of German descent. He developed the theory of stabilizing selection, and took part in the development of the modern evolutionary synthesis.[1]
He is remembered, among other things, for Schmalhausen's law, which states that a population at its limit of tolerance in one aspect is vulnerable to small differences in any other aspect.
- ^ Levit, Georgy S.; Uwe Hossfeld; Lennart Olsson (2006). "From the "Modern Synthesis" to Cybernetics: Ivan Ivanovich Schmalhausen (1884–1963) and his Research Program for a Synthesis of Evolutionary and Developmental Biology". Journal of Experimental Zoology. 306B (2006): 89–106. doi:10.1002/jez.b.21087. PMID 16419076. S2CID 23594114.
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