Author : Thomas Hood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600073220
A disputed inheritance
Thomas Hood
Disputed Inheritance
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Disputed Inheritance
Gregory Radick
Author : Gregory Radick
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226822716
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A root-and-branch rethinking of how history has shaped the science of genetics. In 1900, almost no one had heard of Gregor Mendel. Ten years later, he was famous as the father of a new science of heredity—genetics. Even today, Mendelian ideas serve as a standard point of entry for learning about genes. The message students receive is plain: the twenty-first century owes an enlightened understanding of how biological inheritance really works to the persistence of an intellectual inheritance that traces back to Mendel’s garden. Disputed Inheritance turns that message on its head. As Gregory Radick shows, Mendelian ideas became foundational not because they match reality—little in nature behaves like Mendel’s peas—but because, in England in the early years of the twentieth century, a ferocious debate ended as it did. On one side was the Cambridge biologist William Bateson, who, in Mendel’s name, wanted biology and society reorganized around the recognition that heredity is destiny. On the other side was the Oxford biologist W. F. R. Weldon, who, admiring Mendel's discoveries in a limited way, thought Bateson's "Mendelism" represented a backward step, since it pushed growing knowledge of the modifying role of environments, internal and external, to the margins. Weldon's untimely death in 1906, before he could finish a book setting out his alternative vision, is, Radick suggests, what sealed the Mendelian victory. Bringing together extensive archival research with searching analyses of the nature of science and history, Disputed Inheritance challenges the way we think about genetics and its possibilities, past, present, and future.
The disputed inheritance
Grace Webster
Author : Grace Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:591036824
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The Disputed Inheritance. A Novel
Grace WEBSTER
Author : Grace WEBSTER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024089342
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The Disputed Inheritance
Grace Webster
Author : Grace Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:265865207
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A Disputed Inheritance
Thomas Hood
Author : Thomas Hood
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375007263
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1863.
A Disputed Inheritance
Thomas Hood
Author : Thomas Hood
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 135798135X
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
A Disputed Inheritance
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0371573963
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A Troublesome Inheritance
Nicholas Wade
Author : Nicholas Wade
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780698163799
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Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races are biologically different from one another. For this understandable reason, the idea has been banished from polite academic conversation. Arguing that race is more than just a social construct can get a scholar run out of town, or at least off campus, on a rail. Human evolution, the consensus view insists, ended in prehistory. Inconveniently, as Nicholas Wade argues in A Troublesome Inheritance, the consensus view cannot be right. And in fact, we know that populations have changed in the past few thousand years—to be lactose tolerant, for example, and to survive at high altitudes. Race is not a bright-line distinction; by definition it means that the more human populations are kept apart, the more they evolve their own distinct traits under the selective pressure known as Darwinian evolution. For many thousands of years, most human populations stayed where they were and grew distinct, not just in outward appearance but in deeper senses as well. Wade, the longtime journalist covering genetic advances for The New York Times, draws widely on the work of scientists who have made crucial breakthroughs in establishing the reality of recent human evolution. The most provocative claims in this book involve the genetic basis of human social habits. What we might call middle-class social traits—thrift, docility, nonviolence—have been slowly but surely inculcated genetically within agrarian societies, Wade argues. These “values” obviously had a strong cultural component, but Wade points to evidence that agrarian societies evolved away from hunter-gatherer societies in some crucial respects. Also controversial are his findings regarding the genetic basis of traits we associate with intelligence, such as literacy and numeracy, in certain ethnic populations, including the Chinese and Ashkenazi Jews. Wade believes deeply in the fundamental equality of all human peoples. He also believes that science is best served by pursuing the truth without fear, and if his mission to arrive at a coherent summa of what the new genetic science does and does not tell us about race and human history leads straight into a minefield, then so be it. This will not be the last word on the subject, but it will begin a powerful and overdue conversation.
The Disputed Inheritance
Grace Webster
Author : Grace Webster
Publisher : General Books
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1458914526
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Qu'est-ce que la socit ? Un assemblage d'hommes reunis par les memes besoins, diviss par des iiittfrets, par des passions, par des vues incompatibles. Ma. Timothy Jankway, who was no stranger at Dundauvie, was received without ceremony. The servants required no instructions from the heads of the family with regard to his accommodation; but conducted him to a third-rate bed-chamber usually allotted for him, and which was designated by his name; and after having the dust brushed from his clothes, he repaired to the public room, took some refreshment, and afterwards waited on the old ladies in their chamber, where he was formally introduced to Mrs. Melville. The hour of dinner came, and while attable the company entertained themselves as well as a party could who were all strangers to each other. Mr. Timothy had just returned from abroad; he had some anecdote of a meagre kind mixed with a quiet flow of milk-and-water conversation; and there was in his manner a slight tinge of obsequiousness orn apparent fear to offend. The chief excellence in his character was that he was an unwearied listener, and that was a qualification of no small merit, as Mr. Dunbar was an indefatigable talker, and required a patient companion of this sort. While Mrs. Melville and Mr. Timothy were sitting in the twilight, lengthening out a conversation of an ineffably dry character, more stirring adventures had befallen the Laird than usually came to his lot. He had remained at the inn at Ballybirsal till rather a late hour, trying to prove to the sceptical Laird of Camberlees and a young Englishman in company with him, the chief points at issue in the great Douglas cause; and the long light of a summer day was almostgone ere he ordered his carriage. Much of the road through which ...
The True Story of the French Dispute in Madagascar
Samuel Pasfield Oliver
Author : Samuel Pasfield Oliver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : France
ISBN : OXFORD:N10607960
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THE TRUE STORY OF THE FRENCH DISPUTE IN MADAGASCAR
CAPTAIN S. PASFIELD OLIVER,F.S.A., F.R.G.S
Author : CAPTAIN S. PASFIELD OLIVER,F.S.A., F.R.G.S
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
THE TRUE STORY OF THE FRENCH DISPUTE IN MADAGASCAR by CAPTAIN S. PASFIELD OLIVER,F.S.A., F.R.G.S Pdf
The Death of Mrs. Westaway
Ruth Ware
Author : Ruth Ware
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501151859
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Nearly three million copies of Ruth Ware’s books sold worldwide. The highly anticipated fourth novel from Ruth Ware, The Globe and Mail and New York Times bestselling author of the In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and The Lying Game. Harriet Westaway—better known as Hal—makes ends meet as a tarot reader, but she doesn’t believe in the power of her trade. On a day that begins like any other, she receives a mysterious and unexpected letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person—but she also knows that she can use her cold-reading skills to potentially claim the money. Hal attends the funeral of the deceased and meets the family...but it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and that the inheritance is at the center of it. Full of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware’s signature suspenseful style, this is an unputdownable thriller from the Agatha Christie of our time.
A Disputed Inheritance
Thomas Hood
Author : Thomas Hood
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1358819300
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10528340