A Cultural History of Heredity (Inbunden)
avStaffan Muller-Wille, Hans-Jorg Rheinberger
ISBN: 9780226545707 - UTGIVEN: 201208It was only around 1800 that heredity began to enter debates among physicians, breeders, and naturalists. Soon thereafter it evolved into one of the most fundamental concepts of biology. Here Staffan Muller-Wille and Hans-Jorg Rheinberger offer a succinct cultural history of the scientific concept o[...]
An Epistemology of the Concrete (Häftad)
avHans-Jorg Rheinberger
ISBN: 9780822345756 - UTGIVEN: 201010An Epistemology of the Concrete brings together case studies and theoretical reflections on the history and epistemology of the life sciences by Hans-Jorg Rheinberger, one of the world's foremost philosophers of science. In these essays he examines the history of experiments, concepts, model organis[...]
Heredity Produced (Inbunden)
avStaffan (EDT) Muller-wille, Hans-Jorg (EDT) Rheinberger, Staffan (EDT) Muller-wille
ISBN: 9780262134767 - UTGIVEN: 2007-03Until the middle of the eighteenth century, the biological makeup of an organism was ascribed to an individual instance of "generation"--involving conception, pregnancy, embryonic development, parturition, lactation, and even astral influences and maternal mood--rather than the biological transmissi[...]
The Concept of the Gene in Development and Evolution (Pocket)
avPeter J. (EDT) Beurton, Raphael (EDT) Falk, Hans-Jorg (EDT) Rheinberger
ISBN: 9780521060240 - UTGIVEN: 2008-02Advances in molecular biological research in the latter half of the twentieth century have made the story of the gene vastly complicated: the more we learn about genes, the less sure we are of what a gene really is. Knowledge about the structure and functioning of genes abounds, but the gene has als[...]
