Genesis : the evolution of biology /

What is evolution? What is a gene? How did these concepts originate and how did they develop? This book is a short history ranging from Lamarck and Darwin to DNA and the Human Genome Project, exploring the conceptual oppositions, techniques, institutional conditions and controversies that have shape...

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Main Author: Sapp, Jan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:1423745922
9781423745921
0195156196
9780195156195
0195156188
9780195156188
1280502452
9781280502453
9780198035503
0198035500
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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Summary:What is evolution? What is a gene? How did these concepts originate and how did they develop? This book is a short history ranging from Lamarck and Darwin to DNA and the Human Genome Project, exploring the conceptual oppositions, techniques, institutional conditions and controversies that have shaped the development of biology.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xix, 364 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-345).
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