of Sciences in 1941. Sixty years after its publication, the National Academy of Sciences commissioned a book entitled Genetics and the Origin of Species: From Darwin to Molecular Biology 60 Years After Dobzhansky. It was also included in the 1990 edition of Great Books of the Western World, placing it with Charles Darwin's two great works The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man''. A third edition was published in 1951. References Further reading External links (book review) 1937 non-fiction books 1937 in biology Books about evolution History of evolutionary biology History of genetics Modern synthesis (20th century)