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Science as a way of knowing : the foundations of modern biology / John A. Moore.
LIBRA QH331 .M59 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moore, John Alexander, 1915-2002
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biology--Philosophy.
- Biology.
- Biology--History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 530 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- 1st Harvard University paperback ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999, ©1993.
- Contents:
- The antecedents of scientific thought
- Aristotle and the Greek view of nature
- Those rational Greeks?
- The Judeo-Christian worldview
- The revival of science
- Figur'd stones and plastick virtue
- The paradigm of evolution
- Testing Darwin's hypotheses
- In the light of evolution
- Life over time
- Pangenesis
- The cell theory
- The hypothesis of chromosomal continuity
- Mendel and the birth of genetics
- Genetics + cytology : 1900-1910
- The genetics of the fruit fly
- The structure and function of genes
- First principles
- The century of discovery
- Descriptive embryology
- The dawn of analytical embryology
- Interactions during development.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-522) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674794826
- 9780674794825
- OCLC:
- 43986669
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