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Recent Progress in the Study of Variation, Heredity, and Evolution

By: Robert Heath Lock(Author)
336 pages, 56 b/w illustrations
Recent Progress in the Study of Variation, Heredity, and Evolution
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About this book

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection.

In the nineteenth century and beyond, scientists at Cambridge produced some of the most significant developments in the study of biological variation and inheritance. The work of William Bateson (several of whose books are also reissued in this series) was especially important in this regard.

Recent Progress in the Study of Variation, Heredity, and Evolution, first published in 1906 by the botanist Robert Heath Lock (1879-1915), lucidly traces these and other milestones in modern biological understanding. A readable account is given of the evolution of the discipline since the publication of Darwin's On the Origins of Species in 1859, taking in the biometrical contributions of Francis Galton and the research into mutation conducted by Hugo de Vries.

The pioneering experiments of Gregor Mendel, and the more recent rediscovery of his laws of inheritance, are clearly contextualised so that non-specialist readers can appreciate the scientific progress that had been made in the half-century prior to the book's first publication.

Contents

Preface

1. Introduction
2. Evolution
3. The theory of natural selection
4. Biometry
5. The theory of mutation
6. The older hybridists
7. Mendelism
8. Mendelism (cont.)
9. Recent cytology
10. Concluding chapter

Glossary
Index

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By: Robert Heath Lock(Author)
336 pages, 56 b/w illustrations
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