Disputed inheritance : the battle over Mendel and the future of biology /
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2023.
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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.