Michael Frederic Guyer (1874–1959) was an American cytologist and zoologist.

Guyer was professor of zoology at the University of Wisconsin.[1] In 1902, he independently discovered Mendel's laws from the cytology of spermatogenesis in pigeon hybrids.[2][3]

Between 1918 and 1924, Guyer with Elizabeth A. Smith performed experiments attempting to demonstrate Lamarckism in which fowl serum antibodies for rabbit lens-protein were injected into pregnant rabbits which resulted in defects in the eyes of some of their offspring that were inherited through eight generations.[4] Their experiments were criticized and were not repeated by other scientists.[5]

Guyer was an eugenicist.[6]

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References

  1. ^ Thompson, Goldianne. (1968). Biography of the Guyers. Monitor Publications. p. 144
  2. ^ Bungener P; Buscaglia, M. (2003). Cytology and Mendelism: Early Connection Between Michael F. Guyer's Contribution. Hist Philos Life Sci 2 :27-50.
  3. ^ Forsdyke, Donald R. (2011). Evolutionary Bioinformatics. Springer. pp. 176-177. ISBN 978-1-4419-7770-0
  4. ^ Guyer, Michael F.; Smith, E. A. (March 1920). "Transmission of Eye-Defects Induced in Rabbits by Means of Lens-Sensitized Fowl-Serum". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences. 6 (3): 134–136. Bibcode:1920PNAS....6..134G. doi:10.1073/pnas.6.3.134. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 1084447. PMID 16576477.
  5. ^ Medawar, Peter (1985) [Originally published 1983]. Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology. Oxford Paperbacks (Reprint ed.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. 169. ISBN 0-19-283043-0.
  6. ^ Beetham, Margaret; Heilmann, Ann. (2004). New Woman Hybridities: Femininity, Feminism, and International Consumer Culture, 1880-1930. Routledge. p. 254. ISBN 0-415-29983-7
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