Theodosius

Later on, the key role of natural selection was also recognised in other fields, and the Modern Synthesis was enriched by a second confluence of disciplines. This extension was realised by various authors, in particular by Theodosius Dobzhansky (1937), Ernst Mayr (1942) and George Gaylord Simpson (1944). Dobzhansky oulined the importance of selection in experimental genetics, and Mayr in biogeography and... 

Great masses of information were indiscriminately destroyed as well as what remained of The Great Library. In 325 C.E., Rome officially became Christian and in 391 the Emperor Theodosius made heresy punishable by death and ordered the destruction of pagan temples. In the Roman world, which at the time covered quite a large area, you were either a Christian or you were exiled or killed. 

Dobzhansky, Theodosius. The Biology of Ultimate Concern. New American Library, New York. 1967. 

Near the top of anyone s list of the ten greatest evolutionists since Darwin will be the English statistician Ronald Fisher. .. and the Russian-bom American Theodosius Dobzhansky. Both were ardent Christians (Ruse, 2001, pp. 8-9). 

Pines has identified the cave in which Qallqulas spends his long fast as part of the temple of the Greco-Egyptian god Serapis, which was destroyed at the end of the fourth century c.e. by the Christian emperor Theodosius. Pines believes that the story predates the destruction of the Serapeion, and that the names of the characters, Salaman and Absal, are derived from the Sanskrit Sramana, which means ascetic, and Apsara, which was a type of succubus specifically sent to seduce ascetics. The story, then, is a product of late Hellenism characteristically infused with elements drawn from Eastern culture. In essence, the tale of Salaman and Absal is a Platonically inspired parable of the rejection of the physical world in favor of the immaterial world of forms. 

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution [1]. These words, written by famed evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky, have a special place... 

Carson HL, Hardy DE, Spieth HT, Stone WS (1970) The evolutionary biology of Hawaiian Drosophilidae. In Hecht MK, Steere WC (eds) Essays in Evolution and Genetics in Honor of Theodosius Dobzhansky Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York, p 437... 

Leo Ls law of 472 proves that Zotikos had established the Orphanotropheion no later than the reign of Theodosius 11 and possibly earli-er. With regard to the leprosarium, the church historian Sokrates demonstrated that this asylum had gained renown by the time of the episcopal election of 425. When the patriarch Attikos died in that year, the people of Constantinople demanded that Sisinnios be their new bishop. He had been serving as a priest not at a church within Constantinople, but rather at the leprosarium at Elaiones. He had become so well known for his piety and care for the poor that the people demanded him as their new shepherd. Sisinnios was subsequently elected as bishop and held the office for two years. 

Gregory s admiration for the Macedonians is remarkable when one considers that the group had bitterly attacked him when the emperor Theodosius I made Gregory bishop of Constantinople in 380. ... 

Nazianzos (fourth century) described his pious mother as a friend of the clergy and as a support of orphans. Gregory of Nyssa also praised PlaciUa, the wife of Theodosius 1 (379-395), for her great charity toward orphans. ... 

Themistios s speech praised Theodosius not for having founded a... 

Whatever Constantine s motivation, his legislation did not have the desired effect. According to the orator Themistios, the emperor Theodosius (379-395) had to intervene personally to restore property unlawfully taken from orphans by their callous guardians. In addition to individual acts of philanthropy to protect orphans, Theodosius also issued several general laws to assist them, laws that were designed in part to correct problems Constantine s laws had introduced. 

In 384 Theodosius I and his coemperor in the West, Valentinian II, restructured the procedure to appoint guardians where no testamen-... 

That Theodosius I and Valentinian II broke with the strong Roman law tradition that only men were fit to serve as guardians and that they were also willing to make exceptions for mother guardians who decided to break their written promises not to marry a second time suggest... 

It is also difficult to find specific cases of the tutela Atiliana with regard to tutores, but two extant sources describe the magisterial appointment of curatores. At the end of the fourth century, Olympias, who later became a supporter of John Chrysostom, lost her parents before she reached adulthood. She then married the urban prefect Ne-bridius, who died one year later and left Olympias a widow. The emperor Theodosius, her relative, assumed her curatorship and subsequently delegated this power to the new urban prefect Clementinus. He in turn tried to force Olympias to marry, most likely in an attempt to find her a new curator. "... 

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