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In the small `Fly Room' at Columbia University, T.H. Morgan and his students, A.H. Sturtevant, C.B. Bridges, and H.J. Muller, carried out the work that laid the foundations of modern, chromosomal genetics. The excitement of those times, when the whole field of genetics was being created, is captured in this book, first written in 1965 by one of those present at the beginning, and now reprinted. His account is one of the few authoritative, analytic works on the early history of genetics.
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Before Mendel; Mendel; 1866 to 1900; the rediscovery; genes and chromosomes; linkage; the "Fly Room"; development of Drosophila work; genetics of continuous variation; oenothera; mutation; cytological maps and the cytology of crossing over; sex determination; position effect; genetics and immunology; biochemical genetics; population genetics and evolution; protozoa; maternal effects; the genetics of man; general remarks; intellectual pedigrees.
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