Defining biology : lectures from the 1890s / edited by Jane Maienschein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maienschein, Jane.

Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biology.

Physical Description:

xiii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1986.

Summary:

'Some of the problems with which we are still struggling in the 1980s were already clearly seen by our forerunners ninety years ago. Indeed, some of their suggested solutions are amazingly up to date...On first thought, one might imagine that lectures presented in the 1890s would be so dated that they are no longer of interest to a contemporary biologist. Reading these lectures, however, quickly dispels this notion.' --Ernst Mayr, from the Foreword

Contents:

Introduction / Jane Maienschein

The mosaic theory of development / Edmund Beecher Wilson

The hereditary mechanism and the search for the unknown factors of evolution / Henry Fairfield Osborn

The problems, methods, and scope of developmental mechanics / Wilhelm Roux

Cleavage and differentiation / Edwin Grant Conklin

Relation of the axis of the embryo to the first cleavage plane / Cornelia Maria Clapp

Caspar Friedrich Wolff and the theoria generationis / William Morton Wheeler

Animal behavior / Charles Otis Whitman

The behavior of unicellular organisms / Herbert Spencer Jennings

Regeneration, old and new interpretations / Thomas Hunt Morgan

On the nature of the process of fertilization / Jacques Loeb

Epilogue / Paul R. Gross.

Notes:

Lectures given at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., in the 1890s.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0674196155

OCLC:

13122861