The Mendelian revolution : the emergence of hereditarian concepts in modern science and society / Peter J. Bowler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowler, Peter J., author.

Series:

Bloomsbury academic collections. History: History of Medicine.

Bloomsbury academic collections. History: History of Medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mendel, Gregor, 1822-1884.

Mendel, Gregor.

Genetics--History--19th century.

Genetics.

Heredity--History--19th century.

Heredity.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 207 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Contents:

1 Mendelism: Discovery or Invention? 1

Challenging the Myth 2

The New View of Science 12

2 Heredity before Darwin 21

Materialism and Generation 26

The Rise of Developmentalism 38

3 Evolution and Heredity 46

Non-Darwinian Evolution 48

Darwin and Heredity 54

Ancestral Heredity 64

4 The Cell in Development and Heredity 74

The Mechanism of Development 78

The Germ Plasm 83

5 Mendel's Contribution 93

Early Hybridization Studies 95

Mendel's Life and Work 99

The 'Long Neglect' 106

6 The Emergence of Mendelism 110

The Rediscovery 113

The Early Mendelians 116

7 Classical Genetics 128

The Chromosome Theory 130

Population Genetics 138

Opposition to Genetics 143

8 Heredity and Politics 153

Social Darwinism 157

Eugenics 162

9 Epilogue: from Classical to Molecular Genetics 171

Molecular Biology and the Gene 172

The Gene and the Organism 178.

Notes:

First published in 1989 by the Athlone Press.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-200) and index.

ISBN:

9781474241731

1474241735

OCLC:

945112003