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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.
Subjects:
Biology > History.
Evolution (Biology) > History.
Genetics > History.
Evolution (Biology)
Genetics > history
Molecular Biology > history
Evolution
Biological Evolution
evolution.
Electronic books.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:1423745922
9781423745921
0195156196
9780195156195
0195156188
9780195156188
1280502452
9781280502453
9780198035503
0198035500
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Evolution and Morphology
  • 1. Evolution and Revolution
  • 2. The Origin
  • 3. Darwin's Champions
  • 4. Darwinism and Sociopolitical Thought
  • 5. Mutualism
  • 6. Dissent from Darwin
  • pt. II. The Cell in Development and Heredity
  • 7. The Myth of the Cell Theory
  • 8. The Body Politic
  • 9. Evolving Embryology
  • 10. The Egg
  • pt. III. Genetics and the Classical Synthesis
  • 11. Mendel Palimpsest
  • 12. Emerging Genetics
  • 13. Darwinian Renaissance
  • 14. Genes, Germs, and Enzymes
  • 15. Genetic Heresy and the Cold War
  • pt. IV. Molecular Biology and Organismic Complexity
  • 16. Conceiving a Master Molecule
  • 17. Beyond the Genome
  • 18. Molecular Evolution and Microbial Phylogeny
  • 19. Symbiomics
  • 20. The Evolution of Relationships.

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