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

Lock, Robert Heath

 
9781108059626: Recent Progress in the Study of Variation, Heredity, and Evolution

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This 1906 work traces the development of the study of evolution and genetics, covering Darwin and Mendel in particular.

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Descrizione del libro

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.

Contenuti

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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