Davenport, Charles Benedict
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▪ American zoologist
born June 1, 1866, Stamford, Conn., U.S.
died Feb. 18, 1944, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
American zoologist who contributed substantially to the study of eugenics (the improvement of populations through breeding) and heredity and who pioneered the use of statistical techniques in biological research.
After receiving a doctorate in zoology at Harvard University in 1892, Davenport taught there until 1899, when he left to join the faculty of the University of Chicago, where, from 1901 to 1904, he was curator of the zoological museum. He directed the department of genetics (1904–34) for the Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., and also founded and directed the Eugenics Record Office (1910–34).
While teaching experimental morphology at Harvard, he used statistical methods in population studies. Partly as a result of breeding experiments with chickens and canaries, he was one of the first, soon after 1902, to recognize the validity of the newly discovered Mendelian theory of heredity. In Heredity in Relation to Eugenics (1911), he compiled evidence concerning the inheritance of human traits, on the basis of which he argued that the application of genetic principles would improve the human race.
Davenport was editor of
Genetics (from 1916) and the
Journal of Physical Anthropology (from 1918). Davenport's other important works include
Statistical Methods with Special Reference to Biological Variation (1899),
Eugenics (1910), and
Body Build and Its Inheritance (1923).
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