Disputed inheritance : the battle over Mendel and the future of biology /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Radick, Gregory (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Before. Who needs a science of heredity?; The meaning of the quincunx; Biology for the steam age; Royal entrances (and exits)
  • Part 2. Battle. Between Boers and basset hounds; Two plates of peas; Mendel all the way; Damn all controversies!; An unfinished manuscript
  • Part 3. Beyond. The success of a new science; What might have been; Mendelian legacies; Weldonian legacies
  • Conclusion
  • Postscript 1: On "genetic determinism" and "interaction"
  • Postscript 2: A simple Mendelian cross Weldonized;
  • Postscript 3: From a counterfactual edition of the Dictionary of scientific biography.