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The Disputed Inheritance
Disputed Inheritance
Author: Gregory RadickPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226822710
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 643
Book Description
A root-and-branch rethinking of how history has shaped the science of genetics. In 1900, almost no one had heard of Gregor Mendel. Ten years later, he was famous as the father of a new science of heredity—genetics. Even today, Mendelian ideas serve as a standard point of entry for learning about genes. The message students receive is plain: the twenty-first century owes an enlightened understanding of how biological inheritance really works to the persistence of an intellectual inheritance that traces back to Mendel’s garden. Disputed Inheritance turns that message on its head. As Gregory Radick shows, Mendelian ideas became foundational not because they match reality—little in nature behaves like Mendel’s peas—but because, in England in the early years of the twentieth century, a ferocious debate ended as it did. On one side was the Cambridge biologist William Bateson, who, in Mendel’s name, wanted biology and society reorganized around the recognition that heredity is destiny. On the other side was the Oxford biologist W. F. R. Weldon, who, admiring Mendel's discoveries in a limited way, thought Bateson's "Mendelism" represented a backward step, since it pushed growing knowledge of the modifying role of environments, internal and external, to the margins. Weldon's untimely death in 1906, before he could finish a book setting out his alternative vision, is, Radick suggests, what sealed the Mendelian victory. Bringing together extensive archival research with searching analyses of the nature of science and history, Disputed Inheritance challenges the way we think about genetics and its possibilities, past, present, and future.
The disputed inheritance
Author: Grace WebsterThe Disputed Inheritance. A Novel
Author: Grace WEBSTERThe Disputed Inheritance
Author: Grace WebsterPublisher: General Books
ISBN: 9781458914521
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Qu'est-ce que la socit ? Un assemblage d'hommes reunis par les memes besoins, diviss par des iiittfrets, par des passions, par des vues incompatibles. Ma. Timothy Jankway, who was no stranger at Dundauvie, was received without ceremony. The servants required no instructions from the heads of the family with regard to his accommodation; but conducted him to a third-rate bed-chamber usually allotted for him, and which was designated by his name; and after having the dust brushed from his clothes, he repaired to the public room, took some refreshment, and afterwards waited on the old ladies in their chamber, where he was formally introduced to Mrs. Melville. The hour of dinner came, and while attable the company entertained themselves as well as a party could who were all strangers to each other. Mr. Timothy had just returned from abroad; he had some anecdote of a meagre kind mixed with a quiet flow of milk-and-water conversation; and there was in his manner a slight tinge of obsequiousness orn apparent fear to offend. The chief excellence in his character was that he was an unwearied listener, and that was a qualification of no small merit, as Mr. Dunbar was an indefatigable talker, and required a patient companion of this sort. While Mrs. Melville and Mr. Timothy were sitting in the twilight, lengthening out a conversation of an ineffably dry character, more stirring adventures had befallen the Laird than usually came to his lot. He had remained at the inn at Ballybirsal till rather a late hour, trying to prove to the sceptical Laird of Camberlees and a young Englishman in company with him, the chief points at issue in the great Douglas cause; and the long light of a summer day was almostgone ere he ordered his carriage. Much of the road through which ...
A disputed inheritance
Author: Thomas HoodA Disputed Inheritance
Author: Thomas HoodPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375007264
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1863.
Sylvandire
Author: Alexandre DumasDisputed Inheritance
Author: Gregory RadickPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226822729
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 643
Book Description
A root-and-branch rethinking of how history has shaped the science of genetics. In 1900, almost no one had heard of Gregor Mendel. Ten years later, he was famous as the father of a new science of heredity—genetics. Even today, Mendelian ideas serve as a standard point of entry for learning about genes. The message students receive is plain: the twenty-first century owes an enlightened understanding of how biological inheritance really works to the persistence of an intellectual inheritance that traces back to Mendel’s garden. Disputed Inheritance turns that message on its head. As Gregory Radick shows, Mendelian ideas became foundational not because they match reality—little in nature behaves like Mendel’s peas—but because, in England in the early years of the twentieth century, a ferocious debate ended as it did. On one side was the Cambridge biologist William Bateson, who, in Mendel’s name, wanted biology and society reorganized around the recognition that heredity is destiny. On the other side was the Oxford biologist W. F. R. Weldon, who, admiring Mendel's discoveries in a limited way, thought Bateson's "Mendelism" represented a backward step, since it pushed growing knowledge of the modifying role of environments, internal and external, to the margins. Weldon's untimely death in 1906, before he could finish a book setting out his alternative vision, is, Radick suggests, what sealed the Mendelian victory. Bringing together extensive archival research with searching analyses of the nature of science and history, Disputed Inheritance challenges the way we think about genetics and its possibilities, past, present, and future.
A Disputed Inheritance
Author: Thomas HoodPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781357981358
Category :
Languages : en
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