Mendel's Legacy: The Origin of Classical GeneticsCSHL Press, 2004 - 332 sayfa This latest book by Elof Carlson (The Unfit) is a first history of classical genetics, the era in which the chromosome theory of heredity was proposed and developed. Highly illustrated and based heavily on early 20th century original sources, the book traces the roots of genetics in breeding analysis and studies of cytology, evolution, and reproductive biology that began in Europe but were synthesized in the United States through new Ph.D. programs and expanded academic funding. Carlson argues that, influenced largely by new technologies and instrumentation, the life sciences progressed though incremental change rather than paradigm shifts, and he describes how molecular biology emerged from the key ideas and model systems of classical genetics. Readable and original, this narrative will interest historians and science educators as well as today's practitioners of genetics. |
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Routes to Classical Genetics Breeding and Hybrid Formation | 41 |
The Rise of the American University | 53 |
The Sex Chromosomes | 79 |
The Rediscovery of Mendelism | 99 |
Forming the Fly Lab Contributions of AH Sturtevant and CB Bridges | 181 |
Forming the Fly Lab Contributions of HJ Muller | 203 |
Drosophila Genetics after 1915 | 215 |
Darwinism Mendelism and the New Synthesis | 231 |
Classical Genetics to the MidTwentieth Century | 243 |
Classical Genetics and OneCelled Organisms | 261 |
Classical Genetics in the Service of Politics | 275 |
Classical Genetics and Human Genetics | 291 |
The Chromosome Theory of Heredity | 109 |
The Predominance of Plant Breeding to 1910 | 119 |
Maize Genetics and the Popularization of Genetics | 139 |
Animal Genetics in the First Decade of the Twentieth Century | 153 |
Morgan and Fruit Fly Genetics | 163 |
The Future and Significance of Classical Genetics | 301 |
Classical Genetics and the History of Science | 307 |
Index | 319 |
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