Legal Conceptions of Equality in the Genomic Age
In: Lawand Inequality, Jg. 25 (2007-07-01), S. 429
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Theodosius Dobzhansky was one of the leading population geneticists of the twentieth century. Born in 1900 in a small town in the Ukraine, 1 he came to the United States in 1927 on a fellowship to study with Thomas Hunt Morgan at Columbia University--another giant in genetics who is best known for his work with Drosophila melanogaster (fruit flies). 2 Dobzhansky remained in the United States the rest of his life, researching, teaching, and writing about genetics. Dobzhansky's greatest, enduring contribution to genetics is his work (along with such luminaries as R.A. Fisher, J.B.S. Haldane, Julian Huxley, Ernst Mayr, and Sewall Wright) in formulating the Modern Synthesis of Evolutionary Theory. 3 The Modern Synthesis integrated Darwinian principles of natural selection with Mendelian principles of inheritance to establish the evolutionary foundations of modern genetics. 4 Dobzhansky is notable today as much for his social commentary as for his technical scientific writings. Four of the themes in Dobzhansky's writing on genetics and equality are especially relevant to this Article. They provide a way to assess the implications for notions of equality when genetic technologies are used in tort, employment discrimination, and occupational health law. The three illustrative areas reflect common law, statutory, and regulatory approaches to individual differences. Dobzhansky's writings also suggest a way of considering societal notions of equality more generally. This Article proposes a new approach to analyzing the effects of individual genetic variation on conceptions of equality. 5 It ultimately finds the current public policy ...
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Legal Conceptions of Equality in the Genomic Age
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Rothstein, Mark A. |
Zeitschrift: | Lawand Inequality, Jg. 25 (2007-07-01), S. 429 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2007 |
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