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(American Geneticist Who Was the First to Attempt to Integrate Genetics, Development, and Evolution) Richard Benedict Goldschmidt was a pioneering geneticist known for his groundbreaking work integrating genetics, development, and evolution. He made significant contributions to understanding reaction norms, genetic assimilation, dynamical genetics, sex determination, and heterochrony. Goldschmidt's controversial "Hopeful Monster" hypothesis proposed a model of macroevolution through macromutations. His description of the nematode's nervous system influenced Sydney Brenner's research on Caenorhabditis elegans, ultimately contributing to Brenner and his colleagues winning the Nobel Prize in 2002.
