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A History of Genetics
By A. H. Sturtevant
California Institute of Technology
With a New Introduction by Edward B. Lewis
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, written in 1965
by one of those present at the beginning. His account is one of the
few authoritative, analytic works on the early history of genetics.
This attractive reprint is accompanied by a
website offering full-text versions of the key
papers discussed in the book, including the world’s first genetic map.
CONTENTS
- Note from the Publishers
- Introduction
- Author’s Preface
- Chapter 1: Before Mendel
- Chapter 2: Mendel
- Chapter 3: 1866 to 1900
- Chapter 4: The Rediscovery
- Chapter 5: Genes and Chromosomes
- Chapter 6: Linkage
- Chapter 7: The “Fly Room”
- Chapter 8: Development of Drosophila Work
- Chapter 9: Genetics of Continuous Variation
- Chapter 10: Oenothera
- Chapter 11: Mutation
- Chapter 12: Cytological Maps and the Cytology of
Crossing Over
- Chapter 13: Sex Determination
- Chapter 14: Position Effect
- Chapter 15: Genetics and Immunology
- Chapter 16: Biochemical Genetics
- Chapter 17: Population Genetics and Evolution
- Chapter 18: Protozoa
- Chapter 19: Maternal Effects
- Chapter 20: The Genetics of Man
- Chapter 21: General Remarks
- Appendix A: Chronology
- Appendix B: Intellectual Pedigrees
- Bibliography
- Index
- Afterword: Remembering Sturtevant
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