TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schwartz,James
TI  - In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA 
SN  - 9780674026704
U1  - 576.509 
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - DNA
KW  - History
KW  - Genes
KW  - Genetics
KW  - NATURE
KW  - General
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Life Sciences
KW  - Genetics &
KW  - Genomics
KW  - SCIENCE / History
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ILLUSTRATIONS --; PREFACE --; CHAPTER 1. Viva Pangenesis --; CHAPTER 2. Reversion to the Mean --; CHAPTER 3. Galton's Disciples --; CHAPTER 4. Pangenes --; CHAPTER 5. Mendel --; CHAPTER 6. Rediscovery --; CHAPTER 7. Mendel Wars --; CHAPTER 8. Cell Biology --; CHAPTER 9. Sex Chromosomes --; CHAPTER 10. The Fly Room --; CHAPTER 11. Oenothera Reconsidered --; CHAPTER 12. X-Rays --; CHAPTER 13. Triumph of the Modern Gene --; EPILOGUE --; NOTES --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INDEX; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Schwartz presents the history of genetics through the eyes of a dozen or so central players, beginning with Charles Darwin and ending with Nobel laureate Hermann J. Muller. This book offers readers the background they need to understand the latest findings in genetics and those still to come in the search for the genetic basis of complex diseases and traits
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674043336
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