Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century
Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century

Author: Bernd Gausemeier

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1317319214

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The essays in this collection examine how human heredity was understood between the end of the First World War and the early 1970s. The contributors explore the interaction of science, medicine and society in determining how heredity was viewed across the world during the politically turbulent years of the twentieth century.

A Century of Mendelism in Human Genetics
A Century of Mendelism in Human Genetics

Author: Milo Keynes

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2004-03-15

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 0203392159

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In 1901 William Bateson, Professor of Biology at Cambridge, published a renewed version of a lecture which he had delivered the year before to the Royal Horticultural Society in London (reprinted in the book as an appendix). In this lecture he recognized the importance of the work completed by Gregor Mendel in 1865, and brought it to the notice of