Ivan Schmalhausen
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Ivan Ivanovich Schmalhausen (Russian: Ива́н Ива́нович Шмальга́узен; 23 April 1884 – 7 October 1963) was a Russian and later Soviet zoologist and evolutionary biologist of German descent. He developed the theory of stabilizing selection, and took part in the development of the modern evolutionary synthesis.[1]
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Born | Иван Иванович Шмальгаузен (1884-04-23)April 23, 1884 Kiev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire |
Died | October 7, 1963(1963-10-07) (aged 79) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Citizenship | Russian, later Soviet |
Alma mater | Kiev University |
Known for | stabilizing selection, modern synthesis, books "Factors of Evolution: the Theory of Stabilizing Selection" (1946) and "The Organism as a Whole in its Individual and Historical Development" (1938) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Zoologist, evolutionist |
Institutions | Institute of Zoology (Kiev), Kiev University, University of Tartu, Moscow University, Institute of Evolutionary Morphology (Moscow), Zoological Institute (Leningrad) |
Doctoral advisor | Alexey Severtzov |
Doctoral students | Boris Balinsky |
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He is remembered, among other things, for Schmalhausen's law, which states that a population at its limit of tolerance in one aspect is vulnerable to small differences in any other aspect.