In the small Fly Room at Columbia University, T.H. Morgan and his students, A.H. Sturtevant, C.B. Bridges, and H.J. Muller, carried out the work that laid the foundations of modern, chromosomal genetics. The excitement of those times, when the whole field of genetics was being created, is captured in this book, written in 1965 by one of those present at the beginning. His account is one of the few authoritative, analytic works on the early history of genetics. This attractive reprint is accompanied by a website, http://www.esp.org/books/sturt/history/ offering full-text versions of the key papers discussed in the book, including the world's first genetic map.
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In discussing the history of a subject it is usual to begin with Aristotle-and he forms a convenient starting point for genetics, though the real beginnings, even of theoretical genetics, go farther back. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chromosome interpretation, salivary gland chromosomes, fourth chromosome, fly room, independent segregation, mutant types, independent assortment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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In discussing the history of a subject it is usual to begin with Aristotle-and he forms a convenient starting point for genetics, though the real beginnings, even of theoretical genetics, go farther back. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chromosome interpretation, salivary gland chromosomes, fourth chromosome, fly room, independent segregation, mutant types, independent assortment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Comptes Rendus, Die Mutationstheorie, Law of Ancestral Inheritance New!
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- Effects of Cross by Charles Darwin on page 4, and Back Matter
- The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection by R. A. Fisher on page 138, and Back Matter
- Introduction to Genetics by A.H. Sturtevant in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cell in Development and Inheritance by Edmund B. Wilson on page 33, and page 45
- Natural Inheritance by Francis Galton on page 126, and Back Matter
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- Genes, Development and Cancer: The Life and Work of Edward B. Lewis by Howard D. Lipshitz on 8 pages
- Short History of Genetics-91 S& T (History of Science and Technology Reprint Series) by Dunn on 4 pages
- Genesis: The Evolution of Biology by Jan Sapp on 4 pages
- The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control by Nathaniel C. Comfort in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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