Experiments in Microevolution

Foreword. In summarizing this symposium, I expressed to our hosts, the Office of Naval Research and the University of Pennsylvania, our deep appreciation for their hospitality and for what all agreed was the great success and stimulation of this meeting. It was rather good to see Government, and par...

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Published in:Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 1954-11, Vol.120 (3123), p.727-732
Main Author: Gerard, R. W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Addiction
Animals
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Bacteria
Biological Evolution
Cells
Drug Resistance
Enzymes
Famine
Genetic mutation
Herbicides
Humans
Molecules
Morphine
Neurons
Old Medline
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Summary:Foreword. In summarizing this symposium, I expressed to our hosts, the Office of Naval Research and the University of Pennsylvania, our deep appreciation for their hospitality and for what all agreed was the great success and stimulation of this meeting. It was rather good to see Government, and particularly military science, tied up with civilian science. It was also good to see the applied so deeply woven with the theoretical. We were concerned, of course, on the one hand, with the enormously important specific problems of the antibiotics, herbicides, and insecticides, with drug resistance and addiction, with the development of resistance to epidemics due to bacteria and other organisms. Yet, on the other hand, these very practical matters do reduce, I think, to the general theory of the interaction of systems with their environment over the course of time; and this is a problem of microevoluition. So we were dealing, for those 2(1/2) days, with modern experiments in the general field of evolution.
ISSN:0036-8075
1095-9203
DOI:10.1126/science.120.3123.727