Genesis: The Evolution of Biology - Softcover

Sapp, Jan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195156196 ISBN 13: 9780195156195

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Genesis What is evolution? What is a gene? How did these concepts originate and how did they develop? This book is a short history ranging from Lamarck and Darwin to DNA and the Human Genome Project, exploring the conceptual oppositions, techniques, institutional conditions and controversies that have shaped the development of biology. Full description

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This volume is a highly readable, broad, and deep introduction to the history of the theories of evolution ... Sapp provides incisive details of all the major advances and controversies, be it in evolution, cell or molecular biology, genetics, microbiology, ontogeny, or symbiosis. (Plant Systematics and Evolution)

No doubt that biology and history of science students and teachers, as well as a well-read general audience, will enjoy reading this captivating book. (Plant Systematics and Evolution)

Synopsis:

This book presents a history of the past two centuries of biology, suitable for use in courses, but of interest more broadly to evolutionary biologists, geneticists, and biomedical scientists, and general readers interested in the history of science. The book covers the early evolutionary biologists-Lamarck, Cuvier, Darwin, Wallace, etc., through Mayr and the neodarwinian synthesis, in much the same way as other histories of evolution have done, bringing in also the social implications, the struggles with our religious understanding, and the interweaving of genetics into evolutionary theory. What is novel about Sapp's account is a real integration of the cytological tradition, from Schwann, Boveri, and the other early cell biologists and embryologists, and the coverage of symbiosis, microbial evolutionary phylogenies, and the new understanding of complete microbial genomes. The book as a whole will serve as a good introduction to the rise of modern biology over the past two centuries.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0195156196
• ISBN 13: 9780195156195
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 388