Mendel's Legacy: The Origin of Classical Genetics

Mendel's Legacy: The Origin of Classical Genetics

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Book Description
In this interdisciplinary historical work, the author asks how and why classical genetics developed in the United States from 1900 to 1920, rather than in Europe where cytology, breeding analysis, evolutionary theory, and organismal biology originated.

Book Info
Stony Brook Univ., NY. Provides an historical account of how classical genetics was developed. Traces the path from Mendel's discovery in 1865 in Europe, through the fields of breeding analysis, reproductive cell biology, cytology, and evolution, to their fusion in the early twentieth century, becoming the field of classical genetics.

Mendel's Legacy: The Origin of Classical Genetics,Elof Axel Carlson,Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press,0879696753,Genetics,History,Life Sciences - Biology - General,Life Sciences - Evolution,Research,Science,Science/Mathematics,United States,Genetics (non-medical),History of science

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