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A guinea pig's history of biology / Jim Endersby.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Endersby, Jim
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Heredity--History.
Heredity.
Genetics--History.
Genetics.
History.
Biology--History.
Biology.
Physical Description:
xii, 499 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
Contents:
1 Equus quagga and Lord Morton's mare 1
2 Passiflora gracilis: Inside Darwin's greenhouse 29
3 Homo sapiens: Francis Galton's fairground attraction 61
4 Hieracium auricula: What Mendel did next 95
5 Oenothera lamarckiana: Hugo de Vries led up the primrose path 128
6 Drosophila melanogaster: Bananas, bottles and Bolsheviks 170
7 Cavia porcellus: Mathematical guinea pigs 209
8 Bacteriophage: The virus that revealed DNA 251
9 Zea mays: Incorrigible corn 292
10 Arabidopsis thaliana: A fruit fly for the botanists 334
11 Danio rerio: Seeing through zebrafish 373
12 OncoMouse: Engineering organisms 411
Bibliography, sources and notes 433.
Notes:
Originally published: London : William Heinemann, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-481) and index.
ISBN:
9780674027138
0674027132
OCLC:
132681500

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