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

Review Ghiselin, M.T. (1992) Review of "Transforming traditions in American biology, 1880-1915". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (pp. 364-66). unapi

Review Romano, T.M. (1993) Review of "Transforming traditions in American biology, 1880-1915". Social History of Medicine (pp. 292-93). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Sunderland, Mary Evelyn
Lowe, James W. E.
Ceccarelli, David
Weinstein, Alexander
Volpone, Alessandro
Vicedo, Marga
Concepts
Biology
Genetics
Evolution
Embryology
Developmental biology
Regeneration
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
21st century
Places
United States
Moscow (Russia)
Germany
Europe
Brazil
Institutions
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
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