Abstract
Richard Goldschmidt was known for his work on sex determination, physiological genetics, and macroevolution. Goldschmidt’s personal life was plagued by two world wars, and his academic life was full of controversies. He first took on a battle with the Mendelian geneticists over the nature of genes and later with neo-Darwinian scholars over evolutionary issues such as whether evolution was gradual. Goldschmidt’s work on homeotic mutants and “hopeful monster” contributed to the understanding of macroevolution. Goldschmidt was considered a heretic by many of his peers, but he is currently revisited by evo-devo biologists because of his insistence on integrating development and physiology into genetics and evolution.
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Zou, Y. (2019). Richard Goldschmidt (1878–1958). In: Nuno de la Rosa, L., Müller, G. (eds) Evolutionary Developmental Biology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33038-9_24-1
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