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In Mendel's footnotes : an introduction to the science and technologies of genes and genetics from the Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-Second / Colin Tudge.
- Title
- In Mendel's footnotes : an introduction to the science and technologies of genes and genetics from the Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-Second / Colin Tudge.
- Author
- Tudge, Colin
- Publication
- London : Jonathan Cape, c2000.
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- Description
- 354 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Here, for the first time, Colin Tudge gives us a narrative account of the science of genetics and its applications. The story and its underlying principles are utterly compelling - and beguilingly simple to grasp. Above all it makes clear that all the great insights of the twentieth century which are now changing our lives spring directly from the work of one man - an Augustinian friar named Gregor Mendel. In the 1850s and '60s, growing peas in his monastery garden in Brno in Moravia, Mendel worked out the basic laws of heredity. Once we understand what Mendel did and why - and why nobody did it sooner - all subsequent advances fall naturally into place and a brilliant light is thrown onto the future of humanity."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Popular Work
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 328-330) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- By way of introduction : The future of humankind and the legacy of Mendel -- The peasant and the scientist -- Breeders, scientists and philosophers -- From Mendel to molecules -- What genes are and how they work -- Mendel and Darwin : Neodarwinsim and the selfish game -- 'Genes for behavior' : The promise of evolutionary psychology -- Genes rearranged and genes conserved -- The shaping of Homo sapiens -- What should we do with all this power?
- ISBN
- 0224059777
- OCLC
- 45350930
- SCSB-10095647
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library