Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology – serie
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The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate
French Biology in the Decades Before Darwin
Inbunden, 1987
3791 kr
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For scientists, no event better represents the contest between form and function as the chief organizing principle of life as the debate between Georges Cuvier and Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. This book presents the first comprehensive study of the celebrated French scientific controversy that …
Beyond the Gene
Cytoplasmic Inheritance and the Struggle for Authority in Genetics
Av Jan Sapp
Inbunden, 1987
4405 kr
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The scope and significance of cytoplasmic inheritance has been the subject of one of the longest controversies in the history of genetics. In the first major book on the history of this subject, Jan Sapp analyses the persistent attempts of investigators of non-Mendelian inheritance to establish …
Controlling Life
Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology
Inbunden, 1987
2215 kr
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The biologist Jaques Loeb (1859-1924) helped to shape the practice of modern biological research through his radical emphasis on reductionist experimentation. This scientific biography traces Loeb's career, and places his experiments and the controversies they generated in their intellectual and …
The Heritage of Experimental Embryology
Hans Spemann and the Organizer
Inbunden, 1988
1148 kr
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Experimental embryology, which was founded in the 1880's and came of age in the first decades of this century, became the foundation for modern cellular and developmental biology. One of the embryology's uncontested leaders was the German biologist Hans Spemann. Professor Hamburger presents a …
The Evolutionary Dynamics of Complex Systems
A Study in Biosocial Complexity
Av C. Dyke
Inbunden, 1988
1148 kr
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This book examines sociobiology and evolution from the scientific and philosophical perspectives. Both sociobiology and evolution are areas of modern biology fraught with controversy and misunderstanding, yet fundamental to a coherent view of human life. For scientists and philosophers of science, …
The Wellborn Science
Eugenics in Germany, France, Brazil, and Russia
Inbunden, 1990
3697 kr
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Eugenics is the branch of biology concerned with the improvement of hereditary qualities in humans. It draws scientists into direct contact with social and political policy makers. Yet, eugenic movements which have been mainly implemented by politicians, often differ significantly from the original …
Darwin without Malthus
The Struggle for Existence in Russian Evolutionary Thought
Inbunden, 1989
4405 kr
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Nineteenth century Russian intellectuals perceived a Malthusian bias in Darwin's theory of evolution by means of natural selection. They identified that bias with Darwin's concept of the "struggle for existence" and his emphasis upon the evolutionary role of overpopulation and intraspecific …
Metchnikoff and the Origins of Immunology
From Metaphor to Theory
Av Alfred I. Tauber, Leon Chernyak
Inbunden, 1991
4405 kr
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This fascinating intellectual history is the first critical study of the work of Elie Metchnikoff, the founding father of modern immunology. Metchnikoff authored and championed the theory that phagocytic cells actively defend the host body against pathogens and diseased cells.In this scientific …
Theory Change in Science
Strategies from Mendelian Genetics
Inbunden, 1991
4094 kr
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This challenging and innovative book examines the processes involved in the birth and development of new scientific ideas. The author has searched for strategies used by scientists for producing new theories, both those that yield a range of plausible hypotheses and ones that aid in narrowing that …
Hans Krebs
The Formation of a Scientific Life 1900-1933
Inbunden, 1992
1067 kr
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This is the first volume of the definitive biography of Hans Krebs, one of the world's foremost biochemists. It begins with the early work of Krebs in Germany, where, working with Otto Warburg, he discovered the urea cycle in 1932. This early achievement, coupled with the discovery of the citric …
Hans Krebs
Architect of Intermediary Metabolism 1933-1937 (Volume II)
Inbunden, 1994
3130 kr
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This comprehensive volume completes Frederic Holmes's notable and detailed biography of Hans Krebs, from the investigator's early development through the major phase of his groundbreaking investigation, which lay the foundations upon which the modern structure of intermediary metabolism is built. …
The Molecular Vision of Life
Caltech, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of the New Biology
Av Kay
Häftad, 1997
2031 kr
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Molecular biology as a distinct scientific discipline had its origins in chemistry and physical biochemistry, gradually emerging in the period between 1930 and the elucidation of DNA in the mid 1950s. Today this field has risen to a dominant position, and with its focus on deciphering genetic …
