Research Catalog

Title

The process of biology : primary sources / [compiled by] Jeffrey J. W. Baker [and] Garland E. Allen.

Author

Baker, Jeffrey J. W.

Publication

Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, [1970]

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Allen, Garland E.

Description

viii, 380 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Addison-Wesley series in life science

Uniform Title

Addison-Wesley series in the life sciences.

Subjects

• Physiology
• Collected Work
• Biology
• Biologia Geral

Genre/Form

Collected Work.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

• Experiments upon the generation of animals and plants / Lazzaro Spallanzani -- The mechanism of pancreatic secretion / W.M. Bayliss and E.H. Starling -- Clinical and psychological effects of marihuana in man / Andrew T. Weil, Norman E. Zinberg, and Judith M. Nelsen -- Microscopical researches into the accordance in the structure and growth of animals and plants / Theodor Schwann -- Cellular pathology / Rudolf Virchow -- Experiments and observations on the gastric juice and the physiology of digestion / William Beaumont -- Gastric juice of the buzzard / René Antoine Réaumur -- Effects of electricity on muscular motion / Luigi Galvani -- Conditioned reflexes / Ivan Pavlov -- Letter on hybridization from Mendel to Carl Nägeli / Gregor Mendel -- The chromosomes in heredity / Walter S. Sutton -- The chromosomes in relation to the determination of sex in insects / Edmund B. Wilson -- On the genetic code / Francis H.C. Crick -- Involvement of RNA in the synthesis of proteins / James D. Watson --
• Contributions to the developmental mechanics of the embryo / Wilhelm Roux -- Potency of the first two cleavage cells in echinoderm development. Experimental production of partial and double formations / Hans A.E. Driesch -- Induction of embryonic primordia by implantation of organizers from a different species / Hans Spemann and Hilde Mangold -- Evidence for the formation of cell aggregates by chemotaxis on the development of the slime mold Dictostelium discoideum / John Tyler Bonner -- Serial transplantation of embryonic nuclei / Thomas J. King and Robert Briggs -- The developmental capacity of nuclei taken from intestinal epithelium cells of feeding tadpoles / J.B. Gurdon -- General conclusions : teleonomic mechanisms in cellular metabolism, growth, and differentiation / Jacques Monod and François Jacob -- Population : the first essay / Thomas R. Malthus --
• Community structure, population control, and competition / Nelson G. Hariston, Frederick E. Smith, and Lawrence B. Slobodkin -- Difficulties and importance of the biological species concept / Ernst Mayr -- Deer irruptions / Aldo Leopold -- On the tendency of species to form varieties; and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by a natural means of selection / Charles R. Darwin and Alfred R. Wallace -- Industrial melanism in the Lepidoptera and its contribution to our knowledge of evolution / H.B.D. Kettlewell -- Aspects of polymorphism in man / A.C. Allison -- On the organized bodies which exist in the atmosphere : examination of the doctrine of spontaneous generation / Louis Pasteur -- Experimental approaches to the origin of life problem / Howard H. Pattee.

LCCN

73093981

OCLC

• ocm00084738
• SCSB-3912019

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries