The Mendelian Revolution
The Emergence of Hereditarian Concepts in Modern Science and Society
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2000
216 pages
978-1-4411-8846-5 (ISBN)
Description
An introduction to the history of genetics and the rethinking of evolutionism.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-8846-5 (9781441188465)
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The Emergence of Hereditarian Concepts in Modern Science and Society
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Person
Peter J. Bowler is Emeritus Professor in the School of History and Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Content
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Mendelism: Discovery or Invention?
- Challenging the Myth
- The New View of Science
- 2. Heredity before Darwin
- Materialism and Generation
- The Rise of Developmentalism
- 3. Evolution and Heredity
- Non-Darwinian Evolution
- Darwin and Heredity
- Ancestral Heredity
- 4. The Cell in Development and Heredity
- The Mechanism of Development
- The Germ Plasm
- 5. Mendel's Contribution
- Early Hybridization Studies
- Mendel's Life and Work
- The 'Long Neglect'
- 6. The Emergence of Mendelism
- The Rediscovery
- The Early Mendelians
- 7. Classical Genetics
- The Chromosome Theory
- Population Genetics
- Opposition to Genetics
- 8. Heredity and Politics
- Social Darwinism
- Eugenics
- 9. Epilogue: from Classical to Molecular Genetics
- Molecular Biology and the Gene
- The Gene and the Organism
- Bibliography
- Index
