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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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- Description
- xiii, 337 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Biology
- 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