Book ID: CBB000774889

In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA (2008)

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Schwartz, James Z. (Author)


Harvard University Press


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: xiii + 370 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Comfort, Nathaniel (2011) Review of "In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 192). unapi

Review Mueller-Wille, Staffan (2009) Review of "In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 386). unapi

Review Iverson, Margot (2010) Review of "In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA". Journal of the History of Biology (p. 801). unapi

Review Shylov, S. Ju.; Jermolaev, A. I. (2009) Review of "In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA". Studies in History of Biology (p. 173). unapi

Essay Review Kevles, Daniel J. (2009) Historicizing Heredity. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 482-490). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg
Fabrizio Rufo
Bosman, F.T. (Fredrik Theodoor)
Hall, Kersten T.
Pereira Martins, Lilian Al-Chueyr
Tudge, Colin
Journals
Journal of the History of Biology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Nederlands Tijdschrift Voor Geneeskunde
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Vuibert
MIT Press
Hill & Wang
Greenwood Press
Donzelli
Concepts
Genetics
DNA; RNA
Molecular biology
Heredity
Evolution
Biology
People
Darwin, Charles Robert
Mendel, Gregor Johann
Crick, Francis
Avery, Oswald Theodore
Miescher, Friedrich
Watson, James Dewey
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
20th century, late
18th century
Places
France
Belgium
Great Britain
Institutions
Ghent University
Institut Pasteur, Paris
Human Genome Project
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