Beyond the Gene

by Jan Sapp

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 their claims in the face of strong resistance from nucleo-centric geneticists and classical neo-Darwinians. A new perspective on the history of genetics is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195042069
• ISBN13: 9780195042061
• Release Date: May 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"