Beyond the Gene
Cytoplasmic Inheritance and the Struggle for Authority in Genetics
Series: Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 17 September 1987
- ISBN 9780195042061
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages282 pages
- Size 244x162x22 mm
- Weight 562 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The scope and significance of cytoplasmic inheritance has been the subject of one of the longest controversies in the history of genetics. Jan Sapp offers a new perspective on the history of genetics, as he explores the oppositions which have shaped theoretical thinking about heredity and evolution throughout the century: materialism/vitalism, reductionism/holism, preformation/epigenesis, neo-Darwinism/neo-Lamarckism, gradualism/saltationism.
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The scope and significance of cytoplasmic inheritance has been the subject of one of the longest controversies in the history of genetics. In the first major book on the history of this subject, Jan Sapp analyses the persistent attempts of investigators of non-Mendelian inheritance to establish their claims, in the face of strong resistance from nucleo-centric geneticists and classical neo-Darwinians. A new perspective on the history of genetics is offered, as he explores the oppositions which have shaped theoretical thinking about heredity and evolution throughout the century: materialism/vitalism, reductionism/holism, preformation/epigenesis, neo-Darwinism/neo-Lamarckism, gradualism/saltationism.
An absorbing account of the development of our ideas on the nature of heredity...A fascinating account of how the participants, and bystanders, too, viewed genetics from Mendel until today.
Table of Contents:
Defining the organism; Constructing heredity; Challenging the nuclear monopoly of the cell in Germany; T.M. Sonneborn: Making plasmagenes in America; Boris Ephrussi and the birth of genetics in France; The cold war in genetics; Problems with 'master molecules'; Patterns of power; Bibliography; Index.
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