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Defining biology : lectures from the 1890s

Title
Defining biology : lectures from the 1890s / edited by Jane Maienschein.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1986.

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  • Maienschein, Jane.
  • Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)
Description
xiii, 337 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Subject
Note
  • Lectures given at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., in the 1890s.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Jane Maienschein -- The mosaic theory of development / Edmund Beecher Wilson -- The hereditary mechanism and the search for the unknown factors of evolution / Henry Fairfield Osborn -- The problems, methods, and scope of developmental mechanics / Wilhelm Roux -- Cleavage and differentiation / Edwin Grant Conklin -- Relation of the axis of the embryo to the first cleavage plane / Cornelia Maria Clapp -- Caspar Friedrich Wolff and the theoria generationis / William Morton Wheeler -- Animal behavior / Charles Otis Whitman -- The behavior of unicellular organisms / Herbert Spencer Jennings -- Regeneration, old and new interpretations / Thomas Hunt Morgan -- On the nature of the process of fertilization / Jacques Loeb -- Epilogue / Paul R. Gross.
Call Number
JSE 86-2042
ISBN
0674196155
LCCN
86000307
OCLC
  • 13122861
  • NYPG86-B96347
Title
Defining biology : lectures from the 1890s / edited by Jane Maienschein.
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1986.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Maienschein, Jane.
Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)
Research Call Number
JSE 86-2042
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