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August Weismann : development, heredity, and evolution /
"In this first full-length biography, Frederick Churchill situates Weismann in the swirling intellectual currents of his era and demonstrates how his work paved the way for the modern synthesis of genetics and evolution in the twentieth century. In 1859 Darwin's tantalizing new idea stirre...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Explorations into Natural History and Development. 1. Growing up and early research ; 2. The age of development ; 3. Becoming an embryologist : insect development ; 4. Studies in descent. Part 1, 1863-1876 ; 5. Studies in descent. Part 2, 1873-1876 ; 6. Daphnia research and the ecology of lakes ; 7. From germ layers to the germ-plasm : the study of hydromedusae, 1877-1883 ; 8. From egg to heredity : 1876-1885 ; 9. A perspective on heredity ; 10. Carl Nägeli and inter- and intragenerational continuity ; 11. The emergence of nuclear cytology
- II. An Architectonic View of Heredity. 12. A new perspective on heredity : continuity and heredity ; 13. Transmission of adaptations and evolution : 1885-1890 ; 14. Polar body research : 1887-1891 ; 15. Protozoa and amphimixis ; 16. A model for heredity : Das Keimplasma, 1892 ; 17. Controversies and adjustments : 1893-1896 ; 18. The germ-plasm and the diversity of living phenomena : 1890-1900 ; 19. Seasonal dimorphism in butterflies and parthenogenesis of drones ; 20. Adapting the germ-plasm ; 1900-1914 ; 21. A mechanical model for evolution
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Works by August Weismann.