Conway Zirkle (October 28, 1895 – March 28, 1972) was an American Botany and historian of science.
Zirkle was professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania.[Romijn, Peter; Scott-Smith, Giles; Segal, Joes. (2012). Divided Dreamworlds?: The Cultural Cold War in East and West. Amsterdam University Press. p. 38. ] He was highly critical of Lamarckism, Lysenkoism, and Marxian biology.[Joravsky, David. (1960). Evolution, Marxian Biology and the Social Scene by Conway Zirkle. Isis. Vol. 51, No. 3. pp. 348–353.]
Selected publications
Books
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The Beginnings of Plant Hybridization (1935)
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Death of a Science in Russia, the Fate of Genetics as Described in "Pravda" and Elsewhere (1949)
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Evolution, Marxian Biology, and the Social Scene (1959)
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The Evolution of Biology (1964)
Papers
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1935. The Inheritance of Acquired Characters and the Provisional Hypothesis of Pangenesis. American Naturalist 69: 417–445.
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1936. Further Notes on Pangenesis and the Inheritance of Acquired Characters. American Naturalist 70: 529–546.
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1941. Natural Selection Before the 'Origin of Species'. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association 84: 71–123.
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1946. The Early History of the Idea of the Inheritance of Acquired Characters and Pangenesis. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 335: 91–151.
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1947. The Theory of Concentric Spheres: Edmund Halley, Cotton Mather, & John Cleves Symmes. Isis. University of Chicago Press (on behalf of The History of Science Society) 37: 155–159.
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1952. Early Ideas on Inbreeding and Crossbreeding. In Heterosis, edited by John W. Gowen, 1–13. Iowa State College Press.
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1958. The First Recognized Plant Hybrid. Journal of Heredity 49: 137–138.
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1959. Species Before Darwin. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 103: 636–644.
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1964. Some Oddities in the Delayed Discovery of Mendelism. Journal of Heredity 55 (2): 65–72.
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