Herbert Spencer Jennings

Herbert Spencer Jennings

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birth_date = April 8, 1868
birth_place =Tonica, Illinois
death_date = April 14, 1947
death_place = Santa Monica, California
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field = zoology
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Herbert Spencer Jennings (born in Tonica, Illinois, April 8, 1868; died in Santa Monica, California, April 14, 1947) was a zoologist, geneticist, and eugenicist. His research helped demonstrate the link between physical and chemical stimulation and automatic responses in lower orders of animals. Tracy Sonneborn would later write::Jennings was so struck by the continued production of hereditarily diverse clones at conjugation, even after many successive inbreedings, that he undertook to examine the matter mathematically. As a result, general formulae for the results of diverse systems of mating were published in a series of papers between 1912 and 1917; these were one of the main seeds from which the whole field of mathematical genetics developed.

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url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15777816
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publication-date=2005 Apr
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volume=47
issue=4
periodical=Hormones and behavior
pages=493-502
doi = 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2005.01.002
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url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12664793
last=Schloegel
first=Judy Johns
last2=Schmidgen
first2=Henning
publication-date=2002 Dec
year=2002
title=General physiology, experimental psychology, and evolutionism. Unicellular organisms as objects of psychophysiological research, 1877-1918.
volume=93
issue=4
periodical=Isis; an international review devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences
pages=614-45
*Citation
id = PMID:11612743
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11612743
last=Barkan
first=E
publication-date=1991
year=1991
title=Reevaluating progressive eugenics: Herbert Spencer Jennings and the 1924 immigration legislation.
volume=24
issue=1
periodical=Journal of the history of biology
pages=91-112
*Citation
id = PMID:11615625
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11615625
last=Sonneborn
first=T M
publication-date=1974
year=1974
title=Herbert Spencer Jennings.
volume=47
issue=
periodical=Biographical memoirs. National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
pages=143-223

External links

* [http://www.life.uiuc.edu/nanney/jennings.html T.M. Sonneborne article on the life of Herbert Spencer Jennings]


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