The Man Who Invented the Chromosome

The Man Who Invented the Chromosome
Author :
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 346
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0674013336
ISBN-13 : 9780674013339
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Man Who Invented the Chromosome by : Oren Solomon Harman

Download or read book The Man Who Invented the Chromosome written by Oren Solomon Harman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harman shows how, within the most miniscule of worlds, Darlington sought answers to the biggest questions—how species originate, how variation occurs. But Darlington did not stop there: Chromosomes held untold, dark truths about man and his culture. This conviction led once-famed Darlington down a path of rebuke, isolation, and finally obscurity.


The Man Who Invented the Chromosome Related Books

The Man Who Invented the Chromosome
Language: en
Pages: 346
Authors: Oren Solomon Harman
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-06-15 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Harman shows how, within the most miniscule of worlds, Darlington sought answers to the biggest questions—how species originate, how variation occurs. But Dar
The Man Who Invented the Chromosome
Language: en
Pages: 342
Authors: Oren Solomon HARMAN
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Born by mistake, or connivance, to struggling parents in a small Lancashire cotton town in 1903, an uninspired Darlington inadvertently escaped the obscurity of
Outsider Scientists
Language: en
Pages: 387
Authors: Oren Harman
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-11 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Outsider Scientists describes the transformative role played by “outsiders” in the growth of the modern life sciences. Biology, which occupies a special pla
Genetic Entropy
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: John C. Sanford
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In this text, Sanford, a retired Cornell professor, shows that the "Primary Axiom"--the foundational evolutionary premise that life is merely the result of muta
Evolution by Gene Duplication
Language: en
Pages: 171
Authors: Susumu Ohno
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-11 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

It is said that "necessity is the mother of invention". To be sure, wheels and pulleys were invented out of necessity by the tenacious minds of upright citi zen