Genesis: The Evolution of BiologyGenesis: The Evolution of Biology presents a history of the past two centuries of biology, suitable for use in courses, but of interest more broadly to evolutionary biologists, geneticists, and biomedical scientists, as well as general readers interested in the history of science. The book covers the early evolutionary biologists-Lamarck, Cuvier, Darwin and Wallace through Mayr and the neodarwinian synthesis, in much the same way as other histories of evolution have done, bringing in also the social implications, the struggles with our religious understanding, and the interweaving of genetics into evolutionary theory. What is novel about Sapp's account is a real integration of the cytological tradition, from Schwann, Boveri, and the other early cell biologists and embryologists, and the coverage of symbiosis, microbial evolutionary phylogenies, and the new understanding of the diversification of life coming from comparative analyses of complete microbial genomes. The book is a history of theories about evolution, genes and organisms from Lamarck and Darwin to the present day. This is the first book on the general history of evolutionary biology to include the history of research and theories about symbiosis in evolution, and first to include research on microbial evolution which were excluded from the classical neo-Darwinian synthesis. Bacterial evolution, and symbiosis in evolution are also excluded from virtually every book on the history of biology. |
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Page x
... Biologists from many specialties have investigated heredity and evolution, emphasizing different problems and techniques while often developing different perspectives and alternative theories. I explore how these specialties emerged and ...
... Biologists from many specialties have investigated heredity and evolution, emphasizing different problems and techniques while often developing different perspectives and alternative theories. I explore how these specialties emerged and ...
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... biologists today recognize many other genomes within cells and organisms besides that of the nucleus: mitochondria, chloroplasts, viral genomes, and other symbionts inside and outside the cell. Their recognition entails dramatic ...
... biologists today recognize many other genomes within cells and organisms besides that of the nucleus: mitochondria, chloroplasts, viral genomes, and other symbionts inside and outside the cell. Their recognition entails dramatic ...
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... biologists who are represented in the notes to chapters. The writing of this book was greatly facilitated by the excellent research conditions afforded me during my two years as Canada Research Chair in the History of the Biological ...
... biologists who are represented in the notes to chapters. The writing of this book was greatly facilitated by the excellent research conditions afforded me during my two years as Canada Research Chair in the History of the Biological ...
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... biologists regard evolution as a confirmed fact, one of the greatest facts of science, as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun. And the influence of evolutionary thinking has extended well beyond biology. Virtually ...
... biologists regard evolution as a confirmed fact, one of the greatest facts of science, as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun. And the influence of evolutionary thinking has extended well beyond biology. Virtually ...
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... biologists who advocate that culture is also, at least in part, biologically determined. The extent to which human social relations are determined by natural evolutionary processes remains a subject of heated debate (see chapter 20) ...
... biologists who advocate that culture is also, at least in part, biologically determined. The extent to which human social relations are determined by natural evolutionary processes remains a subject of heated debate (see chapter 20) ...
Contents
THE CELL IN DEVELOPMENT AND HEREDITY | 73 |
GENETICS AND THE CLASSICAL SYNTHESIS | 115 |
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND ORGANISMIC COMPLEXITY | 185 |
Epilogue | 267 |
Notes | 273 |
Index | 347 |
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