Heredity Explored: Between Public Domain and Experimental Science, 1850-1930

Bys: Diane B. Paul, Ulrike Vedder, Hamish G. Spencer

Investigations of how the understanding of heredity developed in scientific, medical, agro-industrial, and political contexts of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This book examines the wide range of scientific and social arenas in which the concept of inheritance gained relevance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although genetics emerged as a scientific discipline during this period, the idea...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262034433
• ISBN13: 9780262034432
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher