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.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
August 2023 |
| First published: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Gregory Radick
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
568 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-82270-9 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-226-82270-2 |
| Barcode: |
9780226822709 |
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