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The man who invented the chromosome : the life of Cyril Darlington / / Oren Solomon Harman
| The man who invented the chromosome : the life of Cyril Darlington / / Oren Solomon Harman |
| Autore | Harman Oren Solomon |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
| Disciplina |
576.5/092
B |
| Soggetto topico | Geneticists - England |
| ISBN |
9780674038332
0674038339 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I FROM CHORLEY TO TABRIZ -- 1. An Improbable Birth -- 2. A Rising Tide -- 3. Auspicious Beginnings -- 4. In Search of Tulips and Truth -- II SCIENCE -- 5. From Cytology to Evolution -- 6. Roots of a Scientific Controversy -- 7. Method, Discipline, and Character -- Interlude -- III POLITICS -- 8. The Lysenko Mfair -- 9. Marxism and the Slaying of a Mentor -- 10. Science in a Changing World -- IV MAN -- 11. The Conflict of Science and Society -- 12. On the Determination of Uncertainty -- 13. The Breakdown of Classical Genetics -- 14. On the Uncertainty of Determination -- 15. One Final Hurrah -- Conclusion: Paradoxes -- Notes -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910967808003321 |
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Rebels, mavericks, and heretics in biology / / edited and with an introduction by Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich ; and with an epilogue by R.C. Lewontin
| Rebels, mavericks, and heretics in biology / / edited and with an introduction by Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich ; and with an epilogue by R.C. Lewontin |
| Autore | Harman Oren |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (412 p.) |
| Disciplina | 570.9 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
HarmanOren Solomon
DietrichMichael R |
| Soggetto topico |
Biology - History
Biologists |
| ISBN |
1-282-35330-6
9786612353307 0-300-15054-7 |
| Classificazione | SCI000000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: On Rebels, Icons, and the Value of Dissent -- 2. Alfred Russel Wallace, the Discovery of Natural Selection, and the Origins of Humankind -- 3. Rebel With Two Causes: Hans Driesch -- 4. Wilhelm Johannsen: A Rebel or a Diehard? -- 5. Raymond Arthur Dart: The Man Who Unwillingly Ushered in a Revolution in the Evolution of Humankind -- 6 In Weismann's Footsteps: The Cyto-Rebellion of C. D. Darlington -- 7. Striking the Hornet's Nest: Richard Goldschmidt's Rejection of the Particulate Gene -- 8. Rebellion and Iconoclasm in the Life and Science of Barbara McClintock -- 9. Challenging the Protein Dogma of the Gene: Oswald T. Avery, a Revolutionary Conservative -- 10. Roger Sperry and Integrative Action in the Nervous System -- 11. Leon Croizat: A Radical Biogeographer -- 12. Dogma, Heresy, and Conversion: Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards's Crusade and the Levels-of-Selection Debate -- 13. Peter Mitchell: Changing the Face of Bioenergetics -- 14. Howard Temin: Rebel of Evidence and Reason -- 15. Motoo Kimura and the Rise of Neutralism -- 16. Against the Grain: The Science and Life of William D. Hamilton -- 17. The Iconoclastic Research Program of Carl Woese -- 18. Stephen Jay Gould, Darwinian Iconoclast? -- 19. Culture and Gender Do Not Dissolve into How Scientists "Read" Nature: Thelma Rowell's Heterodoxy -- 20. Bringing Statistical Methods to Community and Evolutionary Ecology: Daniel S. Simberloff -- Epilogue: Legitimation Is the Name of the Game -- Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910966409703321 |
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Harman Oren
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| New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2008 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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