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C.H. Waddington

Born

in Evesham, Worcestershire, England, The United Kingdom

November 08, 1905

Died

September 26, 1975

Genre

Biology, Genetics, Science

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Conrad Hal Waddington was a British biologist, embryologist, palaeontologist, geneticist and philosopher.

Waddington had wide interests that included poetry and painting, as well as left-wing political leanings. In his book The Scientific Attitude (1941), he touched on political topics such as central planning, and praised Marxism as a "profound scientific philosophy". ...more

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Average rating: 3.63 · 106 ratings · 17 reviews · 50 distinct works

	The Nature of Life 3.48 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1961 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tools for Thought 3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1977 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Strategy of the Genes 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1957 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The scientific attitude (A Nucleus book) 2.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1941 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	O.R. In World War 2: Operational Research Against The U-Boat 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1973 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The evolution of an evolutionist 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1975 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Animals Develop: A Short Account of the Science of Embryology 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2015 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Principles and Problems of Development and Differentiation 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1966 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The ethical animal really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1960 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Behind Appearance: A Study of the Relations Between Painting and the Natural Sciences in this Century by C.H. Waddington, Conrad H.Waddington 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1969 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Several people have shown that if, by some experimental means, the retina and eyeball are made larger than usual, that in itself will cause a larger lens to appear, of at least approximately the appropriate size for vision. There is no reason, therefore, why a chance mutation should not affect the whole organ in a harmonious way; and there is a reasonable possibility that it might improve it....A random change in a hereditary factor will, in fact, not usually result in an alteration in just one element of the adult animal; it will bring about a shift in the whole developmental system, and may thus alter a complex organ as a whole.”
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“To suppose that the evolution of the wonderfully adapted biological mechanisms has depended only on a selection out of a haphazard set of variations, each produced by blind chance, is like suggesting that if we went on throwing bricks together into heaps, we should eventually be able to choose ourselves the most desirable house.”
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“An epigenetic system which is relatively unresponsive to genetic variation must almost inevitably also show considerable stability in the face of environmental variations, since the environmental conditions must usually produce effects on the developing processes similar in kind to those which could be produced by gene alterations.”
― C.H. Waddington, The Strategy of the Genes

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