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Treasure your exceptions : the science and life of William Bateson / by Alan G. Cock and Donald R. Forsdyke.
Van Pelt Library QH429.2.B34 C63 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cock, Alan G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bateson, William, 1861-1926.
- Bateson, William.
- Geneticists--England--Biography.
- Geneticists.
- Genetics--England--History.
- Genetics.
- History.
- England.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 745 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Springer, [2008]
- Summary:
- William Bateson brought the work of Mendel (and much more) to the attention of the English-speaking world. He commanded the biological sciences in the decades after Darwin's death in 1882. To understand these years we must first understand Bateson. Through examination of the life of a major contributor to the turn-of-the-century revolution in biology, the authors of this volume reconcile the genocentrism of George Williams and Richard Dawkins with the hierarchical thinking of Richard Goldschmidt and Stephen Jay Gould. The anti-Darwinian arguments of Bateson are only now, a century later, gaining recognition. At last, Evolutionists can present a unified front to their creationist opponents.
- Contents:
- Part I Genesis of a Geneticist 1
- 1 A Cambridge Childhood (1861-1882) 3
- 2 From Virginia to the Aral Sea (1883-1889) 17
- 3 Galton 49
- 4 Variation (1890-1894) 75
- 5 Romanes 111
- 6 Reorientation and Controversy (1895-1899) 147
- 7 What Life May Be 173
- Part II Mendelism 195
- 8 Rediscovery (1900-1901) 197
- 9 Mendel's Bulldog (1902-1906) 221
- 10 Bateson's Bulldog 265
- 11 On Course (1907-1908) 295
- 12 Darwin Centenary (1909) 319
- 13 Chromosomes 339
- Part III The Innes Years 379
- 14 Passages (1910-1914) 381
- 15 Eugenics 419
- 16 War (1915-1919) 439
- 17 My Respectful Homage (1920-1922) 469
- 18 Limits Undetermined (1923-1926) 495
- Part IV Politics 519
- 19 Butler 521
- 20 Pilgrimages 559
- 21 The Kammerer Affair 567
- 22 Science and Chauvinism 585
- 23 Degrees for Women 601
- Part V Eclipse 621
- 24 Bashing 623
- Publications of William Bateson 673.
- Notes:
- "Publications of William Bateson": pages [673]-680.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [681]-709) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0387756876
- 9780387756875
- OCLC:
- 191760105
- Online:
- Publisher description
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