Book ID: CBB000100514

The Concept of the Gene in Development and Evolution (2000)

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Beurton, Peter (Editor)
Falk, Raphael (Editor)
Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg (Editor)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: xvi + 384 pp.
Language: English

Description Introduction; Part I. Genes and Traits. Thomas Fogle: The dissolution of protein coding genes in molecular biology; Sara Schwartz: The differential concept of the gene: Past and present; Fred Gifford: Gene concepts and genetic concepts; Part II. Extracting the Units of Heredity. Jean Gayon: From measurement to organization: A philosophical scheme for the history of the concept of heredity; Michael R. Dietrich: From gene to genetic hierarchy: Richard Goldschmidt and the problem of the gene; Frederic L. Holmes: Seymour Benzer and the definition of the gene; Part III. Genetic Programs and Developmental Genes. Evelyn Fox Keller: Decoding the genetic program; Scott F. Gilbert: Genes classical and developmental: The different use of genes in evolutionary synthesis; Michel Morange: The developmental gene concept: History and limits; Part IV. Conceptual Perspectives. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger: Gene concepts: Fragments from the perspective of molecular biology; James R. Griesemer: Reproduction and the reduction of genetics; Peter J. Beurton: A unified view of the gene, or how to overcome reductionism; Raphael Falk, The gene---a concept in tension: A critical overview.


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Authors & Contributors
Fabrizio Rufo
Delgado, Abigail Nieves
Sandra P. González-Santos
Pemberton, Stephen
Yakhini, Zohar
Tudge, Colin
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Zygon
Science as Culture
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Journal of the History of Biology
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Routledge India
Yale University Press
University of Chicago Press
Simon and Schuster
Hill & Wang
Concepts
Genetics
Genes
Molecular biology
Heredity
DNA; RNA
Evolution
People
Mendel, Gregor Johann
Watson, James Dewey
Müller, Hermann Joseph
Gould, Stephen Jay
Fiers, Walter
Darwin, Charles Robert
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
Modern
Renaissance
Places
Belgium
Mexico
Institutions
Ghent University
Institut Pasteur, Paris
Human Genome Project
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