How we get Mendel wrong, and why it matters : challenging the narrative of Mendelian genetics / Kostas Kampourakis
"This book illustrates that the stereotypical representations of Gregor Mendel and his work misrepresent his findings and their historical context. The author sets the historical record straight and provides scientists with a reference guide to the respective scholarship in the early history of...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boca Raton, London, New York : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024 |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Edition: | First edition |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xxii, 226 Seiten; Illustrationen |
| Notes: | Literaturverzeichnis Seite 209-220 |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: "Gregor Mendel, the first geneticist"
- Mendel was not a geneticist ahead of his time
- Mendel was a brilliant experimentalist of his time
- Speculating about heredity
- The path to genetics
- The reification of the "lonely genius"
- Mendel's great defender
- Chromosomes, "factors" and genes
- "Mendelian" eugenics
- Geneticists' attitudes towards "Mendelian" eugenics
- Mendelian genetics and the Nazi racial hygiene
- Conclusions: Emending the teaching of school genetics.