The cold war politics of genetic research : an introduction to the Lysenko affair / / William deJong-Lambert |
Autore | deJong-Lambert William |
Edizione | [First edition 2012.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxii, 185 pages) |
Disciplina | 575.1 |
Collana | Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology |
Soggetto topico |
Genetics - History
Genetics - Philosophy |
ISBN |
1-280-79863-7
94-007-2840-9 9786613709028 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Timeline of Events -- Introduction -- 1: Mendelist-Morganists and Michurinism -- 2: Between Corld War and Cold War -- 3: Reacting to Lysenko -- 4: Acquired Characteristics -- 5: The “Spitzer Affair” -- 6: Pigs Wearing Booties Earn Scorn of Red Press -- Epilogue: “Nikita and I have our difficulties…” . |
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deJong-Lambert William | ||
Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2012 | ||
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Francis Galton [[electronic resource] ] : pioneer of heredity and biometry / / Michael Bulmer |
Autore | Bulmer M. G |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, Md., : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (375 p.) |
Disciplina |
576.5/092
B |
Soggetto topico |
Geneticists - England
Genetics - History Biometry - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8018-8140-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451761203321 |
Bulmer M. G | ||
Baltimore, Md., : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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Francis Galton [[electronic resource] ] : pioneer of heredity and biometry / / Michael Bulmer |
Autore | Bulmer M. G |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, Md., : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (375 p.) |
Disciplina |
576.5/092
B |
Soggetto topico |
Geneticists - England
Genetics - History Biometry - History |
ISBN | 0-8018-8140-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777578703321 |
Bulmer M. G | ||
Baltimore, Md., : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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Francis Galton : pioneer of heredity and biometry / / Michael Bulmer |
Autore | Bulmer M. G |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, Md., : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (375 p.) |
Disciplina |
576.5/092
B |
Soggetto topico |
Geneticists - England
Genetics - History Biometry - History |
ISBN | 0-8018-8140-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Introduction -- 1 A Victorian Life -- 2 Hereditary Ability -- 3 Eugenics -- 4 The Mechanism of Heredity -- 5 Four Evolutionary Problems -- 6 The Charms of Statistics -- 7 Statistical Theory of Heredity -- 8 The Law of Ancestral Heredity -- 9 Discontinuity in Evolution -- 10 Biometry -- References -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818742303321 |
Bulmer M. G | ||
Baltimore, Md., : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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Gene action [[electronic resource] ] : a historical account / / Werner Maas |
Autore | Maas Werner Karl <1921-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
Disciplina | 576.5/09 |
Soggetto topico |
Genetics - History
Heredity |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-83501-X
9786610835010 0-19-974893-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455985203321 |
Maas Werner Karl <1921-> | ||
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Gene action [[electronic resource] ] : a historical account / / Werner Maas |
Autore | Maas Werner Karl <1921-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
Disciplina | 576.5/09 |
Soggetto topico |
Genetics - History
Heredity |
ISBN |
0-19-770680-0
1-280-83501-X 9786610835010 0-19-974893-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780609703321 |
Maas Werner Karl <1921-> | ||
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001 | ||
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Gene action : a historical account / / Werner Maas |
Autore | Maas Werner Karl <1921-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
Disciplina | 576.5/09 |
Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
Soggetto topico |
Genetics - History
Heredity |
ISBN |
0-19-770680-0
1-280-83501-X 9786610835010 0-19-974893-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Contents -- I: The Classical Period, 1860-1940 -- 1 Overture: The Garden of Mendel -- 2 Building a Scaffold: Genes Within Chromosomes -- II: One Gene-One Enzyme, 1900-1953 -- 3 The Dawn of the One Gene-One Enzyme Hypothesis During the Classical Period -- 4 The Neurospora Era -- 5 Escherichia coli Enters the Field -- 6 Biochemical Genetics in Escherichia coli -- 7 The Chemical Nature of Genes -- III: How Genes Determine Protein Structure, 1953-1965 -- 8 Building a Theoretical Framework for Gene Action -- 9 Biochemical Identification of Adaptors -- 10 The Elusive Messenger -- 11 Deciphering the Code -- IV: Regulation or Gene Action -- 12 Feedback Control of Biosynthetic Pathways -- 13 Adaptive Enzymes -- 14 The Operon Model -- V: In the Aftermath of the Operon Model, 1965-2000 -- 15 The Floodgates Open -- Appendix: Further Readings and Comments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813633903321 |
Maas Werner Karl <1921-> | ||
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Genesis [[electronic resource] ] : the evolution of biology / / Jan Sapp |
Autore | Sapp Jan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (385 p.) |
Disciplina | 570 |
Soggetto topico |
Biology - History
Evolution (Biology) - History Genetics - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-4237-4592-2
1-280-50245-2 1-4337-0068-9 9786610502455 0-19-515619-6 0-19-803550-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453709403321 |
Sapp Jan | ||
Oxford, : New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Genesis [[electronic resource] ] : the evolution of biology / / Jan Sapp |
Autore | Sapp Jan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (385 p.) |
Disciplina | 570 |
Soggetto topico |
Biology - History
Evolution (Biology) - History Genetics - History |
ISBN |
1-4237-4592-2
1-280-50245-2 1-4337-0068-9 9786610502455 0-19-515619-6 0-19-803550-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791498503321 |
Sapp Jan | ||
Oxford, : New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Genesis : the evolution of biology / / Jan Sapp |
Autore | Sapp Jan |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (385 p.) |
Disciplina | 570 |
Soggetto topico |
Biology - History
Evolution (Biology) - History Genetics - History |
ISBN |
1-4237-4592-2
1-280-50245-2 1-4337-0068-9 9786610502455 0-19-515619-6 0-19-803550-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818858603321 |
Sapp Jan | ||
Oxford, : New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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