Theunissen Bert
Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Utrecht University, Netherlands.
Stud Hist Philos Biol Biomed Sci. 2014 Jun;46:55-64. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2014.03.004. Epub 2014 Apr 18.
In the history of genetics Arend Hagedoorn (1885-1953) is mainly known for the 'Hagedoorn effect', which states that part of the changes in variability that populations undergo over time are due to chance effects. Leaving this contribution aside, Hagedoorn's work has received scarcely any attention from historians. This is mainly due to the fact that Hagedoorn was an expert in animal breeding, a field that historians have only recently begun to explore. His work provides an example of how a prominent geneticist envisaged animal breeding to be reformed by the new science of heredity. Hagedoorn, a pupil of Hugo de Vries, tried to integrate his insights as a Mendelian geneticist and an animal breeding expert in a unified view of heredity, eugenics and evolution. In this paper I aim to elucidate how these fields were connected in Hagedoorn's work.
在遗传学史上，阿伦德·哈格多恩（1885 - 1953）主要因“哈格多恩效应”而闻名，该效应指出，种群随时间推移所经历的变异性变化部分是由偶然效应引起的。撇开这一贡献不谈，哈格多恩的工作几乎没有受到历史学家的关注。这主要是因为哈格多恩是动物育种方面的专家，而历史学家直到最近才开始探索这个领域。他的工作提供了一个例子，说明一位杰出的遗传学家是如何设想通过新的遗传科学对动物育种进行改革的。哈格多恩是雨果·德·弗里斯的学生，他试图将自己作为孟德尔遗传学家和动物育种专家的见解整合到一个关于遗传、优生学和进化的统一观点中。在本文中，我旨在阐明这些领域在哈格多恩的工作中是如何相互关联的。
