The Man Who Invented the Chromosome : : A Life of Cyril Darlington / / Oren Solomon Harman.
Born by mistake, or connivance, to struggling parents in a small Lancashire cotton town in 1903, an uninspired Darlington inadvertently escaped the obscurity of farming life and rose instead, against all odds, to become within a few short years the world's greatest expert on chromosomes, and on...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (341 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I FROM CHORLEY TO TABRIZ
- 1. An Improbable Birth
- 2. A Rising Tide
- 3. Auspicious Beginnings
- 4. In Search of Tulips and Truth
- II SCIENCE
- 5. From Cytology to Evolution
- 6. Roots of a Scientific Controversy
- 7. Method, Discipline, and Character
- Interlude
- III POLITICS
- 8. The Lysenko Mfair
- 9. Marxism and the Slaying of a Mentor
- 10. Science in a Changing World
- IV MAN
- 11. The Conflict of Science and Society
- 12. On the Determination of Uncertainty
- 13. The Breakdown of Classical Genetics
- 14. On the Uncertainty of Determination
- 15. One Final Hurrah
- Conclusion: Paradoxes
- Notes
- Index