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A Cultural History of Heredity

A Cultural History of Heredity
Author: Staffan Muller-Wille
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0226545709

It was only around 1800 that heredity began to enter debates among physicians, breeders, and naturalists. Download A Cultural History of Heredity from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Soon thereafter it evolved into one of the most fundamental concepts of biology. Here Staffan MAller-Wille and Hans-JArg Rheinberger offer a succinct cultural history of the scientific concept of heredity. They outline the dramatic changes the idea has undergone since the early modern period and describe the political and technological developments that brought about these changes.

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MAller-Wille and Rheinberger begin with an account of premodern theories of generation, showing that these were concerned with the procreation of individuals rather than with hereditary transmission oon thereafter it evolved into one of the most fundamental concepts of biology. Here Staffan MAller-Wille and Hans-JArg Rheinberger offer a succinct cultural history of the scientific concept of heredity. They outline the dramatic changes the idea has undergone since the early modern period and describe the political and technological developments that brought about these changes.

MAller-Wille and Rheinberger begin with an account of premodern theories of generation, showing that these were concerned with the procreation of individuals rather than with hereditary transmission. The authors reveal that when hereditarian thinkin



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