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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.