Conway Zirkle (28 de outubro de 1895 – 28 de maro de 1972) foi un botánico e historiador da ciencia estadounidense.
Zirkle foi profesor emérito da Universidade de Pensilvania.Romijn, Peter; Scott-Smith, Giles; Segal, Joes. (2012). Divided Dreamworlds?: The Cultural Cold War in East and West. Amsterdam University Press. p. 38. Nas súas obras foi moi crítico co lamarckismo, lysenkismo e bioloxía maxista.Joravsky, David. (1960). Evolution, Marxian Biology and the Social Scene by Conway Zirkle. Isis. Vol. 51, No. 3. pp. 348–353.
Publicacións seleccionadas Libros 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)
Artigos 1935. The Inheritance of Acquired Characters and the Provisional Hypothesis of Pangenesis. American Naturalist 69: 417–445. 1936. Further Notes on Pangenesis and the Inheritance of Acquired Characters. American Naturalist 70: 529–546. 1941. Natural Selection Before the 'Origin of Species'''. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association 84: 71–123. 1946. The Early History of the Idea of the Inheritance of Acquired Characters and Pangenesis. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 335: 91–151. 1947. The Theory of Concentric Spheres: Edmund Halley, Cotton Mather, & John Cleves Symmes. Isis. University of Chicago Press (en nome de The History of Science Society) 37: 155–159. 1952. Early Ideas on Inbreeding and Crossbreeding. In Heterosis, edited by John W. Gowen, 1–13. Iowa State College Press. 1958. The First Recognized Plant Hybrid. Journal of Heredity 49: 137–138. 1959. Species Before Darwin. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 103: 636–644. 1964. Some Oddities in the Delayed Discovery of Mendelism. Journal of Heredity'' 55 (2): 65–72.
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