1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791498503321

Autore

Sapp Jan

Titolo

Genesis [[electronic resource] ] : the evolution of biology / / Jan Sapp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003

ISBN

1-4237-4592-2

1-280-50245-2

1-4337-0068-9

9786610502455

0-19-515619-6

0-19-803550-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Disciplina

570

Soggetti

Biology - History

Evolution (Biology) - History

Genetics - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-345).

Nota di contenuto

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;



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

Sommario/riassunto

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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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962334703321

Autore

Hooke Robert <1635-1703., >

Titolo

Philosophical experiments and observations / / Robert Hooke ; edited by W. Derham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Frank Cass, , 1967

ISBN

1-136-23029-7

1-136-23022-X

0-203-04143-7

Edizione

[First edition. new impression.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (425 p.)

Collana

Cass Library of Science Classics ; ; Number 8

Altri autori (Persone)

DerhamW <1657-1735.> (William)

Disciplina

509/.42

Soggetti

Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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.

Nota di contenuto

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



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

Sommario/riassunto

First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.