Problems of Genetics

Klappentext These lectures, published in 1913, illuminate the formation of theories that are central to modern genetics. Zusammenfassung These lectures, published at Yale in 1913, illuminate the formation of theories that are central to the modern study of genetics, heredity and evolution. In them, William Bateson (1861–1926) chronicles the conflicting and developing theories on taxonomy, speciation, variation and hybridisation, using a wide taxonomic range of detailed examples. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introductory; 2. Meristic phenomena; 3. Segmentation, organic and mechanical; 4. The classification of variation and the nature of substantive variation; 5. The mutation theory; 6. Variation and locality; 7. Local differentiation; 8. Locally differentiated forms; 9. The effects of changed conditions; 10. The effects of changed conditions (cont.); 11. The sterility of hybrids; Appendix; Index.

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• Authors: William Bateson, Bateson William
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.09.2012
• EAN: 9781108053082
• ISBN: 978-1-108-05308-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Darwin, Evolution and Genetics; Cambridge Library Collection - Darwin, Evolution and Genetics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Genetics, genetic engineering; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Genetics (non-medical)