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Genesis : the evolution of biology
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Genesis : the evolution of biology

Author: Jan Sapp
Publisher: Oxford : New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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What is evolution? What is a gene? How did these concepts originate and how did they develop? This book is a short history ranging from Lamarck and Darwin to DNA and the Human Genome Project,  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jan Sapp
ISBN: 0195156196 9780195156195 0195156188 9780195156188
OCLC Number: 50858986
Description: xix, 364 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Evolution and revolution --
The origin --
Darwin's champions --
Darwinism and sociopolitical thought --
Mutualism --
Dissent from Darwin --
The myth of the cell theory --
The body politic --
Evolving embryology --
The egg --
Mendel palimpsest --
Emerging genetics --
Darwinian renaissance --
Genes, germs, and enzymes --
Genetic heresy and the Cold War --
Conceiving a master molecule --
Beyond the genome --
Molecular evolution and microbial phylogeny --
Symbiomics --
The evolution of relationships.
Responsibility: Jan Sapp.
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This volume is a highly readable, broad, and deep introduction to the history of the theories of evolution ... Sapp provides incisive details of all the major advances and controversies, be it in Read more...

 
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