Although the modern day public may dismiss some of his ideas as backward or non-progressive, Galton was a genius among men; Galton published many works that introduced the scientific world to never-before conceived ideas and concepts. Francis Galton traveled extensively and studied many other fields including geography and meteorology before moving onto the study of heredity and the new field of “eugenics” (Gillham, 2011). This shift was due to Charles Darwin’s extremely influential arguments in The Origin of Species, which had one section on variations in human populations that provided a spark of proof to Galton that the human race could be advanced by means of selective breeding. Darwin heavily influenced many including Galton, largely due to the impact of
Title: Report on Ernest Everett Just Scientist: Ernest Everett Just - Male Date Of Birth: August 14, 1883 He was born in the discriminative conditions of the South and yet, Ernest Everett Just made his way up to become one of the most highly respected scientists of his time, graduating magna cum laude (with very great honour in Latin) from Dartmouth College in 1907, having earned a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1916, and teaching at Howard University in Washington, D.C. from 1909 until his death in 1941. Just’s key contributions were served to enhance our understanding of the main parts of early biological development. He focused on fertilization, cell division, artificial parthenogenesis, the physiology of cell development, and the effects of dehydration and ultraviolet radiation on cell and chromosome structure. Ernest Just produced ground-breaking research in cell biology at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. It had been at the Woods Hole laboratories when he’d made and important discovery about cell cleavage, the successive cell divisions leading to the formation of the embryo.
I believe that one of the most important theorists associated with biological psychology would have to be D.O. Hebb. His book being published opened up more minds to his therioies. It opened up the advancement for biological psychology and made it a major neuroscientific discipline. 4.
Is Medical Experimentation Ethical Abstract In this discussion we will focus on how we can make the ethically correct decision when it comes down to experimentation on human beings. We will look into the history of the experimentation process and find some of the determining factors that took place. We will also look into Dr. Mengeles first experimentations and try a make a decision on whether or not what he had done in Nazi Germany was ethically correct or not. Science as we no it today has advanced at a fast pace in the last century due to the beginning of human experimentation. When you sit back and think of the process and some of the issues that arise from human experimentation, you begin to realize how many ethical issues we must have considered to come to conclusions to have deemed it right to begin experimentation on humans.
Evidence will be presented to illustrate the strength of each theory. Finally the main arguments of this essay will be summarized and will conclude that human language cannot be fully explained by evolution. It will end with suggesting that these theories have to be seen as provisional, due to the possibility of new findings. The growing interest in the origin of language can be seen as the outcome of significant technological changes in various scientific sectors. When genes and DNA were discovered in 1953, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution has been supported in many aspects.
Interestingly, both Cal. Tech and Harvard University turned him down for their graduate programs; later, Watson would become the Senior Research Fellow at Cal Tech despite their initial rejection.1 James Watson married Elizabeth Lewis in 1968 and sired two sons, Rufus Robert Watson (b. 1970) and Duncan James Watson (b. 1972). Career in Molecular Biology Watson was interested in Salvador Luria’s work which concerned the nature of genetic mutations and began his PhD work in Luria’s laboratory at Indiana University.
During the Renaissance, there were many scientific advances and discoveries. Weapons and armory also improved to help soldiers fight. The Renaissance Period started around the fourteenth century and ended around the beginning of the seventeenth century. New information was rediscovered by Christian scholars due to the growth of trade and crusades (Centers of Inventions ?). The West learned many things from Arabian thinkers who had a much greater level of scientific success.
Even though his experiments were controversial, Henrietta’s cancer cells were special because they were the “first immortal human cells ever grown in culture and thus vital to the development and discovery of several medical landmarks like the polo vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and in vitro fertilization.” (Zielinski) Of the many ethical issues that arise in the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, one of the most important topics revolves around the autonomy of the prisoner’s consent of such dangerous experimentation. The general definition of autonomy is self-governance. Autonomy can be broken down into two areas. First, “autonomous behavior is governed by plans of action that have been formulated through deliberation or reflection.” (p.83) Secondly, it must be intentional and voluntary, “from choices people make based upon their own life plans.” (p.83) Terrance Ackerman describes four conditions that can constrict a person’s ability to act autonomously. Out of the four constraints; physical, cognitive, psychological, and social, the prisoners are affected physically and therefore can not make autonomous decisions.
Professor Nemur and Dr.Strauss have contributed immensely to the scientific world by initiating the experiment to increase intelligence and mental ability. The Algernon-Gordon Effect enunciates that the process of enhancing intelligence via surgery will eventually revert and that the higher the mental capacity grew, the more accelerated and destructive the final mental decline would be. This report was written by Charlie Gordon himself during the time of his maximum intelligence. Now I’ll tell you something about myself. As you all know, I do have a PhD in psychology, biology, chemistry, and physics.
This quest for knowledge induced a time of experimentation to further intelligence pertaining to the drug. This led to experiments testing everything from autism to alcoholism. The government was also trying to exploit the drug for “mind control” use (Inside LSD). One example that proved LSD had a positive use was Dr. James Fadiman’s experiment on administering large doses to scientists participating in his study. The data compiled revealed that all the problems they had addressed during the experimentation were solved more intelligibly and creatively.