Beyond the Gene

Cytoplasmic Inheritance and the Struggle for Authority in Genetics

Jan Sapp (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

282 Seiten

1987
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-504206-1 (ISBN)

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The scope and significance of cytoplasmic inheritance has been the subject of one of the longest controversies in the history of genetics. In the first major book on the history of this subject, Jan Sapp analyses the persistent attempts of investigators of non-Mendelian inheritance to establish their claims, in the face of strong resistance from nucleo-centric geneticists and classical neo-Darwinians. A new perspective on the history of genetics is offered, as he explores the oppositions which have shaped theoretical thinking about heredity and evolution throughout the century: materialism/vitalism, reductionism/holism, preformation/epigenesis, neo-Darwinism/neo-Lamarckism, gradualism/saltationism.

Defining the organism; Constructing heredity; Challenging the nuclear monopoly of the cell in Germany; T.M. Sonneborn: Making plasmagenes in America; Boris Ephrussi and the birth of genetics in France; The cold war in genetics; Problems with 'master molecules'; Patterns of power; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.9.1987
Reihe/Serie	Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 244 mm
Gewicht	562 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
	Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Humangenetik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
Schlagworte	Monographs on the History & Philosophy of Biology
ISBN-10	0-19-504206-9 / 0195042069
ISBN-13	978-0-19-504206-1 / 9780195042061
Zustand	Neuware