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UNINA9910791498503321 |
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Sapp Jan |
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Titolo |
Genesis [[electronic resource] ] : the evolution of biology / / Jan Sapp |
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Oxford, : New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003 |
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1-4237-4592-2 |
1-280-50245-2 |
1-4337-0068-9 |
9786610502455 |
0-19-515619-6 |
0-19-803550-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (385 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Biology - History |
Evolution (Biology) - History |
Genetics - History |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-345). |
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Contents; PART I: EVOLUTION AND MORPHOLOGY; 1. Evolution and Revolution; Two Worldviews; Revolution to Evolution; Lamarckian Myths; Simple to Complex; Disconnecting the Unity of Life; The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate; 2. The Origin; When Making Other Plans; Darwin's Bible; The Beagle Voyage; Natural Selection and Natural Theology; Wallace's Manuscript; Concepts of The Origin; 3. Darwin's Champions; Man's Place in Nature; Natural Theology and Agnosticism; Archetype and Idealism; Ontogeny and Phylogeny; Materialism for Mysticism; 4. Darwinism and Sociopolitical Thought; Laissez-faire |
Social Darwinism ExportedWar and Racism; Darwinism on the Left; Was Darwin a Social Darwinist?; Social Theory in Evolution; The Division of Labor; Darwin and Malthus; 5. Mutualism; Anarchism; Between Individuals; Between Species; Roots in Natural Theology; 6. Dissent from Darwin; Is the Earth Old Enough?; Blending Inheritance; What Is a Species?; Speciation and Isolation; Is Everything Adapted?; Holes in the Record; Neo-Lamarckism; Orthogenesis; Saltationism; PART II: THE CELL IN DEVELOPMENT AND HEREDITY; 7. The Myth of the Cell Theory; |
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An Historical Paradox; Cells from Cells |
More than Meets the EyeVitalism, Materialism, and Spontaneous Generation; 8. The Body Politic; The Cell State; The Dawn of Protistology; A Cell Is Not a Cell; What's in a Word; Organisms within Organisms; Weismannism; 9. Evolving Embryology; Technical Virtuosity; The Organism as a Whole; Epigenesis and Preformation; 10. The Egg; The Body Plan in the Egg; Maternal Inheritance; Cellular Differentiation; Cytoplasmic Evolution; PART III: GENETICS AND THE CLASSICAL SYNTHESIS; 11. Mendel Palimpsest; Mendel's Laws; Neglect and Rediscovery; Making a Discoverer; Why Multiple Meanings? |
Geneticists versus StatisticiansMendel Made Darwinian; Is the Scientific Paper Fiction?; 12. Emerging Genetics; The Field of Heredity; Genotype and Phenotype; Disciplinary Design; Biology out of Balance; Are Genes Real?; 13. Darwinian Renaissance; Merging Mendelism; The Importance of Sex; Population Genetics; Random Drift and Nonadaptive Change; The Species Problem; Microevolution as Macroevolution; Lessons of Synthesis; 14. Genes, Germs, and Enzymes; The Garrod Tale; Physiology and Genetics; Early Gene-Enzyme Associations; The One-Gene: One-Enzyme Hypothesis; Domesticating Microbes |
The Chosen FewThe Rockefeller Foundation; 15. Genetic Heresy and the Cold War; Non-Darwinian Development; Plasmon to Plasmagenes; The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics; University Politics; Morgan's Smile; PART IV: MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND ORGANISMIC COMPLEXITY; 16. Conceiving a Master Molecule; DNA or Protein?; Transformation and Transduction; Chromatography; X-Ray Crystallography; Digital DNA; Transcription and Translation; Turning Genes On and Off; Classical Doctrines of Molecular Biology; 17. Beyond the Genome; Complexity and the Human Genome; A Genetic Plan?; Confronting Old Dogmas |
Cell Architecture and Spatial Information |
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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 shaped the development of biology. |
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UNINA9910962334703321 |
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Autore |
Hooke Robert <1635-1703., > |
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Philosophical experiments and observations / / Robert Hooke ; edited by W. Derham |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London : , : Frank Cass, , 1967 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-23029-7 |
1-136-23022-X |
0-203-04143-7 |
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Edizione |
[First edition. new impression.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (425 p.) |
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Collana |
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Cass Library of Science Classics ; ; Number 8 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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DerhamW <1657-1735.> (William) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Facsimile reprint of 1st ed. published as 'Philosophical experiments and observations of the late eminent Dr. Robert Hooke.' London, printed by W. J. Innys, printers to the Royal Society, 1726. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Publisher''s Note to the 1967 Edition; Editor''s Note to the 1967 Edition; Table of Contents; Dedication; To the Reader; Of the Invention of the Barometer; Kingkardine''s Observations of Pendulum Clocks at Sea; Hooke''s Experiment of Weighing Air; A Brief Account of the Experiments tried before the Royal Society, with Glass Balls; The Pressures of Bodies on Different Mediums; Hooke''s Enquiries for Greenland; Hooke''s Enquiries for Iceland; Hooke''s Proposals on the Resistance of Air; Hooke''s Experiment on the Refraction of Ice and Crystal |
Hooke''s Method of Making ExperimentsOldenburg''s Letter to Hooke, 23 August 1665; Powell''s Letter to Daniell, 6 January 1665/66; Powell''s Letter to Daniell, 27 September 1666; Brown''s Account of Petrified Bone, &c; Towneley''s Observations of Water; Fran''s Letter on Earthquakes; On Bees-Wax; Carte on the Belland; Hooke''s Weather-Clock; Hooke''s Self-Emptying Vessel; Toinard on Longitude; Toinard on the Eclipses of Jupiter; Hooke on Hailstones; Paschall''s Letter to Hooke, 4 January 1680; Leuwenhoek on Animalcules; Reiselius'' Letter to Grew, 6 March 1680 |
Pigot''s Letter to Hooke, 26 November 1681Leuwenhoek on the Structure of Hair, &c; Hooke''s Letter to Trapham, 18 February |
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1681/82; Leuwenhoek on the Fibres of Muscles; Carte on Worms in the Stomach; Yonge''s Letter to Hooke; Molyneux''s Anatomical Observations; Hooke on the Rule of False Position; Hooke on Earths, Salts, &c; Hooke''s Experiments on Floating of Lead; Hooke''s Experiments on the Pressure of Water in Pipes; Experiments on the Elasticity of the Air; Experiments on Compression; Observations of Sound; Hooke''s Windmill; Hooke''s Contrivance to Stop Great Weights Falling |
Hooke on Impressions of MedalsHooke on Reproducing Pictures; Hooke on the Improvement of Scales, &c; Japanese Scales; Hooke on the Weight of Liquors; Hooke on Magnetism in Drills; Hooke on the Strength of Ice; Hooke on the Expansion of Water by Freezing; Hooke on the Specific Gravity of Ice; Hooke on the Phaenomena of Ice; Hooke on Long-Distance Communication; Hooke''s Discourse of Carriages; Houses Paying Chimney-Money; Hooke on the Barometer; Bolognian Phosphorus; Liquid Phosphorus; Metallic Phosphorus; Brandt on Phosphoros Elementaris; Baldwyn on Phosphorus; De Germinatione Metalli |
Baldwyn on TinOn Orvietano; Ink for Printing; Divers Curious Recepts, Collected by Hooke; Caswell''s Discourse on the Sun-Dial; Hooke''s Way of finding the true Meridian; Hooke on Dimensions in the Mixture of Vitriol and Fair Water; An Account of the Plant called Bangue; Hooke on Gems; Wallis'' Account of Printing in Oxford; Hooke on Instruments for Sounding the great Depths of the Sea; Hooke''s Observations on the Lake-Wetter in Swedeland; Hooke''s Discourse Concerning Telescopes and Microscopes; Hooke''s Invention of a Reflecting Telescope |
Waller''s Observations on Hooke''s Discourse on Telescopes and Microscopes |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
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