Talk:Theodosius Dobzhansky

message: If anyone knows the place name where Dobzhansky's ashes were scattered, please add this information to the article. It is significant because evolutionary biologists sometimes visit the place (I know from personal correspondence that Brian and Deborah Charlesworth have, (quoting BC) "inhaling thousands of molecules of the stuff"). - Samsara contrib talk 21:05, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Place where ashes scattered

message: I don't think this issue is relevant to the article; Dobzhansky had been living in the States for five years before it started. I've deleted the sentence and associated reference. Tevildo (talk) 19:55, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. The relevance of this event to his life has not been shown.  EdJohnston (talk) 20:33, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Holodomor" reference 

message: Dobzhansky is remembered in Brazil, and perhaps his Brazilian contributions will be remembered in a later edition of this biography. His classic Amazon tree paper is:
G. A. Black, Th. Dobzhansky and C. Pavan. 1950. Some Attempts to Estimate Species Diversity and Population Density of Trees in Amazonian Forests. Botanical Gazette, Vol. 111, No. 4 pp. 413-425.
--Wloveral (talk) 00:39, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the suggestion. Are you able to give us a few sentences, in your words, of what the main contribution of this paper was?  References are good, but article text is better.  You may have noticed that Dobzhansky deserves a much better article than what we currently have! EdJohnston (talk) 01:41, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brazilian Drosophila research and classic Amazon forest diversity paper not noted in article 

message: Theodosius Dobzhansky was also an eugenist. In fact, he was among the signatories of the eugenics manifesto in 1939.Agre22 (talk) 12:46, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: He was also an eugenist

message: "He was a strong supportor[sic] of the Darwinian view of evolution." Is it necessary?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.7.255.36 (talk) 21:31, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  This sentence... 

message: Although born in Nemirov in the western Ukraine of Imperial Russia, Dobzhansky (whose father was of Polish extraction; his mother was Russian or perhaps Polish as well) is not known to have spoken Ukrainian. He did speak and write in Russian (he also knew English, German, French, Spanish, and Portuguese), and was considered Russian by his contemporaries, historians, and himself, so his name should be transliterated in Russian rather than Ukrainian; perhaps some editor who knows Russian can do so. A strict transliteration from the Russian would give Dobrzhansky, a form Dobzhansky used occasionally early in his life. See the essays by Ford and Ayala cited in the external links. Also, he was widely known in the English speaking world as "Th. Dobzhansky"; I've never seen him referred to as "T.G. Dobzhansky" as the article asserts. If he has been called this, it is very much rarer than the "Th." form (which he himself used). MayerG (talk) 04:01, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name should be in Russian 

message: This man was one of the Mount Rushmmore titans of modern biology, the modern synthesis: among a small handful of the most influential scientists in 20th century biology/population genetics/anthropology - yet probably because he wasn't scandalous and had few (or any?) enemies, he's given superficial, cursory coverage on wikipedia.  That should give us pause...why Kent Hovind's life and views of evolution get more coverage than Dobzhansky's. Professor marginalia (talk) 06:43, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiki flagellation 

message: I am not an editor but just to throw out a worthwhile addition, perhaps we could put something on his theory of post-zygotic isolation? At least to me, it seems to be one of his other "great" contributions besides the modern synthesis and was one of the first good models for speciation of distantly related species.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.108.27.110 (talk) 01:19, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, by making any edits here, you are an editor.  While expansion would be nice, it must cite reliable sources, and avoid original research.  Ian.thomson (talk) 01:38, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

text: I've also been editing the wikipedia entry on the Dobzansky-Muller Model.  I agree that both Dobzhansky's, Muller's and possibly Bateson's pages need to mention this theory.  The page for it was listed as the Bateson-Dobzhansky-Muller Model when I found it.  I almost think it should be changed to just Dobzhansky-Muller Model or a redirect should be made.  Feel free to help out with this page.  It was very poorly written when I found it.  Dopeytaylor (talk) 16:16, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dobzansky-Muller theory 

message: The final paragraph reads "A great-grandson of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky." This is not a grammatical sentence  - it should begin with the words "He was"
to make it a complete sentence. Rollo August (talk) 22:19, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Right. On that point, the Russian version of the article seems to say he's not a direct great-grandson, which is what another source points to, so I'll tweak the sentence. Robincantin (talk) 15:36, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Final sentence of first paragraph