Experimenting with sex: four approaches to the genetics of sex reversal before 1950

In the early twentieth century, Tatsuo Aida in Japan, Øjvind Winge in Denmark, Richard Goldschmidt in Germany, and Calvin Bridges in the United States all developed different experimental systems to study the genetics of sex reversal. These locally specific experimental systems grounded these experi...

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Published in:History and philosophy of the life sciences 2016-04, Vol.38 (1), p.23-41
Main Author: Dietrich, Michael R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Autosomes
Chromosomes
Drosophila
Education
Evolutionary genetics
Female
Genes
Genetics - history
History of medicine and histology
History of Science
History, 20th Century
Human genetics
Intersex animals
Life Sciences
Male
Male animals
Models, Biological
Original Paper
Philosophy
Philosophy of Biology
Philosophy of Science
Sex chromosomes
Sex determination
Sex Determination Processes
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Summary:In the early twentieth century, Tatsuo Aida in Japan, Øjvind Winge in Denmark, Richard Goldschmidt in Germany, and Calvin Bridges in the United States all developed different experimental systems to study the genetics of sex reversal. These locally specific experimental systems grounded these experimenters' understanding of sex reversal as well as their interpretation of claims regarding experimental results and theories. The comparison of four researchers and their experimental systems reveals how those different systems mediated their understanding of genetic phenomena, and influenced their interpretations of sex reversal.
ISSN:0391-9714
1742-6316
DOI:10.1007/s40656-015-0092-8