The Origins of Hermann Muller’s Mutation Concept

Dr. Gliboff is the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine at Indiana University Bloomington. Gliboff’s research and teaching interests are in the history of biology, especially evolution and genetics, and the science in modern Germany and Austria. He is the author of H.G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the Origins of German Darwinism: A Study in Translation and Transformation (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008). His 1999 article, “Gregor Mendel and the Laws of Evolution” (History of Science 37: 217–35) was awarded the Ivan Slade Prize by the British Society for the History of Science. He is currently working on a book on Darwinian evolution around the turn of the twentieth century, as well as a series of articles on Erich Tschermak and early Mendelism.