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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sapp, Jan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.