Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2016
Publication Title
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Department
Department of Biological Sciences
Abstract
In the early twentieth century, Tatsuo Aida in Japan, jvind 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.
DOI
10.1007/s40656-015-0092-8
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Dietrich, Michael, "Experimenting with sex: four approaches to the genetics of sex reversal before 1950" (2016). Dartmouth Scholarship. 2.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/2