| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 161 pages, [8] pages of chiefly color plates) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The first fifty years of Mendelism. The introduction of Mendelism into human genetics / Milo Keynes. Galton's theory of ancestral inheritance / Michael Bulmer. The reception of Mendelism by the biometricians and the early Mendelians (1899-1909) / Eileen Magnello. Mendelism and man 1918-1939 / A.W.F. Edwards -- William Bateson, Archibald Garrod and the nature of the "inborn" / Patrick Bateson -- Human genetics from 1950. Linkage and allelic association / Newton E. Morton. Malaria and Darwinian selection in human populations / Lucio Luzzatto. Chromosomal genetics and evolution / Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith. Mendelian disorders in man: the development of human genetics / Timothy M. Cox. The genetics of complex diseases / John Bell. Human cancer genetics / Alfred G. Knudson. Genetics and the future of medicine / D.J. Weatherall. Appendix: problems of heredity as a subject for horticultural investigation / William Bateson |
| Summary |
Reviews the history of Mendelism in genetics as well as the impact that this has had on the study of disease, including human cancer genetics, natural selection in human populations and genetics in the future of medicine |
| Notes |
Addendum notice included (1 sheet) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mendel, Gregor, 1822-1884 |
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Mendel's law -- History
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Human genetics -- History
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Genetics, Medical -- history
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History, 20th Century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Physical.
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Human genetics
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Mendel's law
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Electronic books
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Keynes, Milo
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Edwards, A. W. F. (Anthony William Fairbank), 1935-
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Peel, Robert Anthony, 1953-
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| ISBN |
0203392159 |
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9780203392157 |
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