Research Catalog

Title

A guinea pig's history of biology / Jim Endersby.

Author

Endersby, Jim

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

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Details

Description

xii, 499 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"Biology today promises everything from better foods or cures for common diseases to the alarming prospect of redesigning life itself Looking at the organisms that have made all this possible gives us a new way of understanding how we got here - and perhaps of thinking about where we're going. Instead of a history of which great scientists had which great ideas, this story of passionflowers and hawkweeds, of zebra fish and viruses, oilers a bird's (or rodent's) eye view of the work that makes science possible."--Jacket.

Subject

• Geschichte
• Heredity > History
• Genetics > History
• Biology > History
• Biology > history
• Animal Experimentation > history
• Animals, Laboratory
• Natural History > history

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Originally published: London : William Heinemann, 2007.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-481) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Equus quagga and Lord Morton's mare -- 2. Passiflora gracilis : inside Darwin's greenhouse -- 3. Homo sapiens : Francis Galton's fairground attraction -- 4. Hieracium auricula : what Mendel did next -- 5. Oenothera lamarckiana : Hugo de Vries led up the primrose path -- 6. Drosophila melanogaster : bananas, bottles and Bolsheviks -- 7. Cavia porcellus : mathematical guinea pigs -- 8. Bacteriophage : the virus that revealed DNA -- 9. Zea mays : incorrigible corn -- 10. Arabidopsis thaliana : a fruit fly for the botanists -- 11. Danio rerio : seeing through zebrafish -- 12. OncoMouse® : engineering organisms -- Bibliography, sources and notes -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780674027138 (alk. paper)
• 0674027132 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007020824

OCLC

• 132681500
• SCSB-10081493

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library