Recent Progress in the Study of Variation, Heredity, and Evolution

Klappentext This 1906 work traces the development of the study of evolution and genetics, covering Darwin and Mendel in particular. Zusammenfassung This 1906 work by the botanist Robert Heath Lock (1879–1915) explains contemporary evolutionary understanding, detailing the development of the study of genetics during the previous half-century, particularly at Cambridge. Covering Darwin and Mendel in particular, this remains an instructive text in the history of science. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Evolution; 3. The theory of natural selection; 4. Biometry; 5. The theory of mutation; 6. The older hybridists; 7. Mendelism; 8. Mendelism (cont.); 9. Recent cytology; 10. Concluding chapter; Glossary; Index.

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• Authors: Robert Heath Lock
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.06.2013
• EAN: 9781108059626
• ISBN: 978-1-108-05962-6
• No. of pages: 336
• 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 > General, dictionaries; Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Genetics (non-medical), Evolution / Evolutionary biology