LEADER 03880nam 22005774a 450 001 9910455152403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-03833-9 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674038332 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805509 035 $a(OCoLC)449957214 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10328795 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000196388 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11208949 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000196388 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10155338 035 $a(PQKB)11777392 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300619 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300619 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10328795 035 $a(OCoLC)923112241 035 $a(DE-B1597)589947 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674038332 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805509 100 $a20040302d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe man who invented the chromosome$b[electronic resource] $ethe life of Cyril Darlington /$fOren Solomon Harman 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (342 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-01333-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [275]-318) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tI FROM CHORLEY TO TABRIZ -- $t1. An Improbable Birth -- $t2. A Rising Tide -- $t3. Auspicious Beginnings -- $t4. In Search of Tulips and Truth -- $tII SCIENCE -- $t5. From Cytology to Evolution -- $t6. Roots of a Scientific Controversy -- $t7. Method, Discipline, and Character -- $tInterlude -- $tIII POLITICS -- $t8. The Lysenko Mfair -- $t9. Marxism and the Slaying of a Mentor -- $t10. Science in a Changing World -- $tIV MAN -- $t11. The Conflict of Science and Society -- $t12. On the Determination of Uncertainty -- $t13. The Breakdown of Classical Genetics -- $t14. On the Uncertainty of Determination -- $t15. One Final Hurrah -- $tConclusion: Paradoxes -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aBorn by mistake, or connivance, to struggling parents in a small Lancashire cotton town in 1903, an uninspired Darlington inadvertently escaped the obscurity of farming life and rose instead, against all odds, to become within a few short years the world's greatest expert on chromosomes, and one of the most penetrating biological thinkers of the twentieth century. Harman follows Darlington's path from bleak prospects to world fame, showing how, within the most miniscule of worlds, he sought answers to the biggest questions--how species originate, how variation occurs, how Nature, both blind and foreboding, random and insightful, makes her way from deep past to unknown future. But Darlington did not stop there: Chromosomes held within their tiny confines untold, dark truths about man and his culture. This passionate conviction led the once famed Darlington down a path of rebuke, isolation, and finally obscurity. As The Man Who Invented the Chromosome unfolds Darlington's forgotten tale--the Nazi atrocities, the Cold War, the crackpot Lysenko, the molecular revolution, eugenics, Civil Rights, the welfare state, the changing views of man's place in nature, biological determinism--all were interconnected. Just as Darlington's work provoked him to ask questions about the link between biology and culture, his life raises fundamental questions about the link between science and society. 606 $aGeneticists$zEngland$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGeneticists 676 $a576.5/092 676 $aB 700 $aHarman$b Oren Solomon$0961142 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455152403321 996 $aThe man who invented the chromosome$92179039 997 $aUNINA