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August Weismann : development, heredity, and evolution / Frederick B. Churchill.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 700 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674286832
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • QH31 .A948 2015
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Contents:
II. An Architectonic View of Heredity. 12. A new perspective on heredity : continuity and heredity ; 13. Transmission of adaptations and evolution : 1885-1890 ; 14. Polar body research : 1887-1891 ; 15. Protozoa and amphimixis ; 16. A model for heredity : Das Keimplasma, 1892 ; 17. Controversies and adjustments : 1893-1896 ; 18. The germ-plasm and the diversity of living phenomena : 1890-1900 ; 19. Seasonal dimorphism in butterflies and parthenogenesis of drones ; 20. Adapting the germ-plasm ; 1900-1914 ; 21. A mechanical model for evolution -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Works by August Weismann.
Subject: "In this first full-length biography, Frederick Churchill situates Weismann in the swirling intellectual currents of his era and demonstrates how his work paved the way for the modern synthesis of genetics and evolution in the twentieth century. In 1859 Darwin's tantalizing new idea stirred up a great deal of activity and turmoil in the scientific world, to a large extent because the underlying biological mechanisms of evolution through natural selection had not yet been worked out. Weismann's achievement was to unite natural history, embryology, and cell biology under the capacious dome of evolutionary theory. In his major work on the germ plasm (1892), which established the material basis of heredity in the 'germ cells, ' Weismann delivered a crushing blow to Lamarck's concept of the inheritance of acquired traits. In this deeply researched biography, Churchill explains the development of Weismann's pioneering work based on cytology and embryology and opens up an expanded history of biology from 1859 to 1914"--Publisher's Web site.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

I. Explorations into Natural History and Development. 1. Growing up and early research ; 2. The age of development ; 3. Becoming an embryologist : insect development ; 4. Studies in descent. Part 1, 1863-1876 ; 5. Studies in descent. Part 2, 1873-1876 ; 6. Daphnia research and the ecology of lakes ; 7. From germ layers to the germ-plasm : the study of hydromedusae, 1877-1883 ; 8. From egg to heredity : 1876-1885 ; 9. A perspective on heredity ; 10. Carl Nägeli and inter- and intragenerational continuity ; 11. The emergence of nuclear cytology -- II. An Architectonic View of Heredity. 12. A new perspective on heredity : continuity and heredity ; 13. Transmission of adaptations and evolution : 1885-1890 ; 14. Polar body research : 1887-1891 ; 15. Protozoa and amphimixis ; 16. A model for heredity : Das Keimplasma, 1892 ; 17. Controversies and adjustments : 1893-1896 ; 18. The germ-plasm and the diversity of living phenomena : 1890-1900 ; 19. Seasonal dimorphism in butterflies and parthenogenesis of drones ; 20. Adapting the germ-plasm ; 1900-1914 ; 21. A mechanical model for evolution -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Works by August Weismann.

"In this first full-length biography, Frederick Churchill situates Weismann in the swirling intellectual currents of his era and demonstrates how his work paved the way for the modern synthesis of genetics and evolution in the twentieth century. In 1859 Darwin's tantalizing new idea stirred up a great deal of activity and turmoil in the scientific world, to a large extent because the underlying biological mechanisms of evolution through natural selection had not yet been worked out. Weismann's achievement was to unite natural history, embryology, and cell biology under the capacious dome of evolutionary theory. In his major work on the germ plasm (1892), which established the material basis of heredity in the 'germ cells, ' Weismann delivered a crushing blow to Lamarck's concept of the inheritance of acquired traits. In this deeply researched biography, Churchill explains the development of Weismann's pioneering work based on cytology and embryology and opens up an expanded history of biology from 1859 to 1914"--Publisher's Web site.

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