Hutchinson Trends in Science: Biology; Preface; Table of contents; Overview: biology in the 20th century; The unravelling of genetics; New science of genetic engineering; Advances in human genetics; Birth of biochemistry and cell biology; Developmental biology; Ecology and animal behaviour; The environment; evolution and human origins; Extinction and the discovery of new species; How life on Earth began; 'Genomic Era'; Chronology; Biographical sketches; Arber, Werner (1929- ); Avery, Oswald Theodore (1877-1955); Banting, Frederick Grant (1891-1941); Beadle, George Wells (1903-1989)
Summary
Overview of the development of biology in the 20th century
