Genesis : The Evolution of Biology
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Genesis: The Evolution of Biology presents a history of the past two centuries of biology, suitable for use in courses, but of interest more broadly to evolutionary biologists, geneticists, and biomedical scientists, as well as general readers interested in the history of science. The book
covers the early evolutionary biologists-Lamarck, Cuvier, Darwin and Wallace through Mayr and the neodarwinian synthesis, in much the same way as other histories of evolution have done, bringing in also the social implications, the struggles with our religious understanding, and the interweaving of
genetics into evolutionary theory. What is novel about Sapp's account is a real integration of the cytological tradition, from Schwann, Boveri, and the other early cell biologists and embryologists, and the coverage of symbiosis, microbial evolutionary phylogenies, and the new understanding of the
diversification of life coming from comparative analyses of complete microbial genomes.
The book is a history of theories about evolution, genes and organisms from Lamarck and Darwin to the present day. This is the first book on the general history of evolutionary biology to include the history of research and theories about symbiosis in evolution, and first to include research on
microbial evolution which were excluded from the classical neo-Darwinian synthesis. Bacterial evolution, and symbiosis in evolution are also excluded from virtually every book on the history of biology.
Genesis: The Evolution of Biology,Jan Sapp,Oxford University Press, USA,0195156196,Biology,Evolution (Biology),Genetics,History,Life Sciences - Biology - General,Life Sciences - Evolution,Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics,Science,Science/Mathematics,20th century,21st century,Evolution,History of science,History of specific subjects,Life Sciences | History & Philosophy of Biology,Science / History,c 1700 to c 1800,c 1800 to c 1900
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