Beyond the Gene : Cytoplasmic Inheritance and the Struggle for Authority in Genetics Hardback
by Jan (Senior Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science, Senior Lecturer in History and Phil Sapp
Part of the Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology series
Hardback
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The scope and significance of cytoplasmic inheritance has been the subject of one of the longest controversies in the history of genetics.
In the first major book on the history of this subject, Jan Sapp analyses the persistent attempts of investigators of non-Mendelian inheritance to establish their claims, in the face of strong resistance from nucleo-centric geneticists and classical neo-Darwinians.
A new perspective on the history of genetics is offered, as he explores the oppositions which have shaped theoretical thinking about heredity and evolution throughout the century: materialism/vitalism, reductionism/holism, preformation/epigenesis, neo-Darwinism/neo-Lamarckism, gradualism/saltationism.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:282 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:17/09/1987
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- ISBN:9780195042061
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:282 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:17/09/1987
- Category:
- ISBN:9780195042061
