Francis Galton - Pioneer of Heredity and Biometry

Informationen zum Autor Michael Bulmer is Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University. Klappentext "Bulmer guides us skillfully through a great deal of the beginnings of our science. We are where we are because of the labors of people like Francis Galton. Science is not the same thing as progress but Galton's story is relevant to understanding something about the way in which science is related to progress." -- Human Genetics Zusammenfassung A graceful writer and an expert biometrician! Bulmer details the eventual triumph of biometrical methods in the history of quantitative genetics based on Mendelian principles! which underpins our understanding of evolution today.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Bulmer, Michael G. Bulmer
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.02.2004
• EAN: 9780801874031
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-7403-1
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Biography: general, SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, History of Science, Biology, life sciences, Biography: science, technology and medicine