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The Man Who Invented the Chromosome : A Life of Cyril Darlington / Oren Solomon Harman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: 2004Description: 1 online resource (341 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780674038332
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 576.5/092 B
LOC classification:
  • QH429.2.D37 ǂb H37 2004eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I FROM CHORLEY TO TABRIZ -- 1. An Improbable Birth -- 2. A Rising Tide -- 3. Auspicious Beginnings -- 4. In Search of Tulips and Truth -- II SCIENCE -- 5. From Cytology to Evolution -- 6. Roots of a Scientific Controversy -- 7. Method, Discipline, and Character -- Interlude -- III POLITICS -- 8. The Lysenko Mfair -- 9. Marxism and the Slaying of a Mentor -- 10. Science in a Changing World -- IV MAN -- 11. The Conflict of Science and Society -- 12. On the Determination of Uncertainty -- 13. The Breakdown of Classical Genetics -- 14. On the Uncertainty of Determination -- 15. One Final Hurrah -- Conclusion: Paradoxes -- Notes -- Index
Summary: Born by mistake, or connivance, to struggling parents in a small Lancashire cotton town in 1903, an uninspired Darlington inadvertently escaped the obscurity of farming life and rose instead, against all odds, to become within a few short years the world's greatest expert on chromosomes, and one of the most penetrating biological thinkers of the twentieth century. Harman follows Darlington's path from bleak prospects to world fame, showing how, within the most miniscule of worlds, he sought answers to the biggest questions--how species originate, how variation occurs, how Nature, both blind and foreboding, random and insightful, makes her way from deep past to unknown future. But Darlington did not stop there: Chromosomes held within their tiny confines untold, dark truths about man and his culture. This passionate conviction led the once famed Darlington down a path of rebuke, isolation, and finally obscurity.As The Man Who Invented the Chromosome unfolds Darlington's forgotten tale--the Nazi atrocities, the Cold War, the crackpot Lysenko, the molecular revolution, eugenics, Civil Rights, the welfare state, the changing views of man's place in nature, biological determinism--all were interconnected. Just as Darlington's work provoked him to ask questions about the link between biology and culture, his life raises fundamental questions about the link between science and society.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I FROM CHORLEY TO TABRIZ -- 1. An Improbable Birth -- 2. A Rising Tide -- 3. Auspicious Beginnings -- 4. In Search of Tulips and Truth -- II SCIENCE -- 5. From Cytology to Evolution -- 6. Roots of a Scientific Controversy -- 7. Method, Discipline, and Character -- Interlude -- III POLITICS -- 8. The Lysenko Mfair -- 9. Marxism and the Slaying of a Mentor -- 10. Science in a Changing World -- IV MAN -- 11. The Conflict of Science and Society -- 12. On the Determination of Uncertainty -- 13. The Breakdown of Classical Genetics -- 14. On the Uncertainty of Determination -- 15. One Final Hurrah -- Conclusion: Paradoxes -- Notes -- Index

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Born by mistake, or connivance, to struggling parents in a small Lancashire cotton town in 1903, an uninspired Darlington inadvertently escaped the obscurity of farming life and rose instead, against all odds, to become within a few short years the world's greatest expert on chromosomes, and one of the most penetrating biological thinkers of the twentieth century. Harman follows Darlington's path from bleak prospects to world fame, showing how, within the most miniscule of worlds, he sought answers to the biggest questions--how species originate, how variation occurs, how Nature, both blind and foreboding, random and insightful, makes her way from deep past to unknown future. But Darlington did not stop there: Chromosomes held within their tiny confines untold, dark truths about man and his culture. This passionate conviction led the once famed Darlington down a path of rebuke, isolation, and finally obscurity.As The Man Who Invented the Chromosome unfolds Darlington's forgotten tale--the Nazi atrocities, the Cold War, the crackpot Lysenko, the molecular revolution, eugenics, Civil Rights, the welfare state, the changing views of man's place in nature, biological determinism--all were interconnected. Just as Darlington's work provoked him to ask questions about the link between biology and culture, his life raises fundamental questions about the link between science and society.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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