Book ID: CBB000048941

Transforming traditions in American biology, 1880-1915 (1991)

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Maienschein, Jane A. (Author)


Johns Hopkins University Press


Publication Date: 1991
Physical Details: xi + 366 pp.; illus.; notes; bibl.; index

Description Centers on the work of Edmund Beecher Wilson, Edwin Grant Conklin, Thomas Hunt Morgan, and Ross Granville Harrison.


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Review Vicedo, M. (1995) Review of "Transforming traditions in American biology, 1880-1915". Perspectives on Science (pp. 231-54). unapi

Review Benson, K.R. (1992) Review of "Transforming traditions in American biology, 1880-1915". Journal of the History of Biology (pp. 157-62). unapi

Review Witkowski, J.A. (1991) Review of "Transforming traditions in American biology, 1880-1915". Science (pp. 1395-97). unapi

Review Ruse, M. (1992) Review of "Transforming traditions in American biology, 1880-1915". Biology and Philosophy (pp. 379-83). unapi

Review Kohler, R.E. (1992) Review of "Transforming traditions in American biology, 1880-1915". American Historical Review (p. 945). unapi

Review Gillespie, N.C. (1992) Review of "Transforming traditions in American biology, 1880-1915". Journal of American History (p. 293). unapi

Review Glass, B. (1993) Review of "Transforming traditions in American biology, 1880-1915". Quarterly Review of Biology (pp. 239-42). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Sunderland, Mary Evelyn
Allen, Garland E.
Brandão, Gilberto Oliveira
Brzezinski Prestes, María Elice de
de Jong-Lambert, William
Esposito, Maurizio
Journals
Journal of the History of Biology
Filosofia e História da Biologia
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
American Zoologist
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Fundo Mackenzie de Pesquisa
Graal'
Arizona State University
Concepts
Biology
Genetics
Evolution
Developmental biology
Mendelism; Mendelian inheritance
Embryology
People
Morgan, Thomas Hunt
Wilson, Edmund Beecher
Conklin, Edwin Grant
Weismann, August
Bateson, William
Baur, Erwin
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
21st century
Places
United States
Germany
Brazil
Europe
Moscow (Russia)
Institutions
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
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