Beyond the Gene
Cytoplasmic Inheritance and the Struggle for Authority in Genetics
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"Interesting and provocative reading....There is a lot of fascinating material here on the careers of important scientists and the ideas with which they struggled." --Nature
1. Defining the Organism
2. Constructing Heredity
3. Challenging the Nuclear Monopoly of the Cell in Germany
4. T.M. Sonneborn: Making Plasmagenes in America
5. Boris Ephrussi and the Birth of Genetics in France
6. The Cold War in Genetics
7. Problems with "Master Molecules"
8. Patterns of Power
Jan SappSenior Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne
"An absorbing account of the development of our ideas on the nature of heredity....A fascinating account of how the participants, and bystanders, too, viewed genetics from Mendel until today."--Cell |k No