Samuel Jackson Holmes

For other people named Samuel Holmes, see Samuel Holmes (disambiguation).

Samuel Jackson Holmes (March 7, 1868 – March 5, 1964[1][2]) was an American zoologist and eugenicist. He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley from 1912 to 1938.[2][3] He was a genetics researcher who studied animal behavior, heredity, and evolution.[4] Over the course of his career he migrated from studying animals to humans, taking the behaviors and traits learned in the former and looking for them in the latter.[5]

  1. ^ California Death Records. – California Department of Health Services Office of Health Information and Research.
  2. ^ a b "SAMUEL HOLMES, ZOOLOGIST, DEAD; Geneticist, 95, Taught at U. of California 27 Years", The New York Times, March 8, 1964
  3. ^ "Finding Aid to the Samuel J. Holmes Papers, 1837-1964, bulk 1894-1964". oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  4. ^ "Obituary: Dr. Samuel Jackson Holmes". Chicago Tribune. March 8, 1964.
  5. ^ "Professor Samuel J. Holmes Is Named U. C. Research Lecturer". Berkeley Daily Gazette. November 27, 1928. p. One, Fourteen.