Guinea Pig's History of Biology: the Plants and Animals Who Taught Us the Facts of Life

Name: Guinea Pig's History of Biology: the Plants and Animals Who Taught Us the Facts of Life
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ISBN: 9780674032279

ISBN-10: 0674032276

ISBN-13: 9780674032279

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jim Endersby

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"Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved," Darwin famously concluded The Origin of Species, and for confirmation we look to...the guinea pig? How this curious creature and others as humble (and as fast-breeding) have helped unlock the mystery of inheritance is the unlikely story Jim Endersby tells in this book.Biology today promises everything from better foods or cures for common diseases to the alarming prospect of redesigning life itself. Looking at the organisms that have made all this possible gives us a new way of understanding how we got here--and perhaps of thinking about where we're going. Instead of a history of which great scientists had…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 8/5/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 6.37" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.562
Language: English



Preface and acknowledgements



Equus quagga and Lord Morton's mare



Passiflora gracilis: Inside Darwin's greenhouse



Homo sapiens: Francis Galton's fairground attraction



Hieracium auricula: What Mendel did next



Oenothera lamarckiana: Hugo de Vries led up the primrose path



Drosophila melanogaster: Bananas, bottles and Bolsheviks



Cavia porcellus: Mathematical guinea pigs



Bacteriophage: The virus that revealed DNA



Zea mays: Incorrigible corn



Arabidopsis thaliana: A fruit fly for the botanists



Danio rerio: Seeing through zebrafish



OncoMouseï¿½: Engineering organisms


Bibliography, sources and notes


Index