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Author : I. Michael Lerner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Heredity, Evolution and Society written by I. Michael Lerner and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael R. Cummings
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Heredity, Evolution, and Society written by Michael R. Cummings and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lsadore Michael Lerner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Heredity Evolution and Society written by Lsadore Michael Lerner and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Waller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198790457
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Heredity written by John Waller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Waller describes the changing ideas concerning heredity from antiquity to the modern biological understanding, considering both the efforts over the centuries to identify the physiological mechanisms involved and how views of heredity have been used to justify or condemn inequalities of class, gender, and race.
Author : Leslie Clarence Dunn
Publisher : Signet Book
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Heredity, Race, and Society written by Leslie Clarence Dunn and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1968-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Heredity and Society written by Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter J. Bowler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474241743
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Mendelian Revolution written by Peter J. Bowler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the history of genetics and the rethinking of evolutionism.
Author : Nicholas Wade
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698163796
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book A Troublesome Inheritance written by Nicholas Wade and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races are biologically different from one another. For this understandable reason, the idea has been banished from polite academic conversation. Arguing that race is more than just a social construct can get a scholar run out of town, or at least off campus, on a rail. Human evolution, the consensus view insists, ended in prehistory. Inconveniently, as Nicholas Wade argues in A Troublesome Inheritance, the consensus view cannot be right. And in fact, we know that populations have changed in the past few thousand years—to be lactose tolerant, for example, and to survive at high altitudes. Race is not a bright-line distinction; by definition it means that the more human populations are kept apart, the more they evolve their own distinct traits under the selective pressure known as Darwinian evolution. For many thousands of years, most human populations stayed where they were and grew distinct, not just in outward appearance but in deeper senses as well. Wade, the longtime journalist covering genetic advances for The New York Times, draws widely on the work of scientists who have made crucial breakthroughs in establishing the reality of recent human evolution. The most provocative claims in this book involve the genetic basis of human social habits. What we might call middle-class social traits—thrift, docility, nonviolence—have been slowly but surely inculcated genetically within agrarian societies, Wade argues. These “values” obviously had a strong cultural component, but Wade points to evidence that agrarian societies evolved away from hunter-gatherer societies in some crucial respects. Also controversial are his findings regarding the genetic basis of traits we associate with intelligence, such as literacy and numeracy, in certain ethnic populations, including the Chinese and Ashkenazi Jews. Wade believes deeply in the fundamental equality of all human peoples. He also believes that science is best served by pursuing the truth without fear, and if his mission to arrive at a coherent summa of what the new genetic science does and does not tell us about race and human history leads straight into a minefield, then so be it. This will not be the last word on the subject, but it will begin a powerful and overdue conversation.
Author : Michael-Pierre Lerner
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Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Heredity Evolution and Society written by Michael-Pierre Lerner and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herbert William Conn
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Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Social heredity and social evolution written by Herbert William Conn and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Staffan Müller-Wille
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262134764
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (621 download)
Download or read book Heredity Produced written by Staffan Müller-Wille and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural history of heredity: scholars from a range of disciplines discuss the evolution of the concept of heredity, from the Early Modern understanding of the act of "generation" to its later nineteenth-century definition as the transmission of characteristics across generations. Until the middle of the eighteenth century, the biological makeup of an organism was ascribed to an individual instance of "generation"--involving conception, pregnancy, embryonic development, parturition, lactation, and even astral influences and maternal mood--rather than the biological transmission of traits and characteristics. Discussions of heredity and inheritance took place largely in the legal and political sphere. In Heredity Produced, scholars from a broad range of disciplines explore the development of the concept of heredity from the early modern period to the era of Darwin and Mendel. The contributors examine the evolution of the concept in disparate cultural realms--including law, medicine, and natural history--and show that it did not coalesce into a more general understanding of heredity until the mid-nineteenth century. They consider inheritance and kinship in a legal context; the classification of certain diseases as hereditary; the study of botany; animal and plant breeding and hybridization for desirable characteristics; theories of generation and evolution; and anthropology and its study of physical differences among humans, particularly skin color. The editors argue that only when people, animals, and plants became more mobile--and were separated from their natural habitats through exploration, colonialism, and other causes--could scientists distinguish between inherited and environmentally induced traits and develop a coherent theory of heredity. Contributors David Sabean, Silvia De Renzi, Ulrike Vedder, Carlos López Beltrán, Phillip K. Wilson, Laure Cartron, Staffan Müller-Wille, Marc J. Ratcliff, Roger Wood, Mary Terrall, Peter McLaughlin, François Duchesneau, Ohad Parnes, Renato Mazzolini, Paul White, Nicolas Pethes, Stefan Willer, Helmuth Müller-Sievers
Author : Ian Porter
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0323155502
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Heredity and Society written by Ian Porter and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heredity and Society documents the proceedings of a symposium on heredity and society sponsored by the Birth Defects Institute of the New York State Department of Health held in Albany, New York, October 26-27, 1971. The central theme, ""Heredity and Society"" means taking part in the exploration of the science of genetics as it affects and is affected by modern life. The contributions made by researchers at the symposium are organized into five sections. The two papers in Section 1 review the history of genetics and discuss ongoing human evolution. Section II presents two studies on changes in the frequency of genes in the population and the evolution of human behavior. Section III contains studies on the effects of genetic counseling and couples who get genetic counseling. Section IV presents some reflections about the consequences of past, present, and future life styles in reproduction of citizens living in Western democracies. It also includes studies on the genetic implications of abortion and the impact of congenital malformations on society. Section V deals with sex chromosome abnormalities; mass screening programs for inborn errors of metabolism; and ethical issues raised by advances in genetics.
Author : Herbert William Conn
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Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Social Heredity and Social Evolution written by Herbert William Conn and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isadore Michael Lerner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (181 download)
Download or read book Teacher's Manual, Heredity Evolution and Society written by Isadore Michael Lerner and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Russell Bonduriansky
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691204144
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Extended Heredity written by Russell Bonduriansky and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonduriansky and Day challenge the premise that genes alone mediate the transmission of biological information across generations and provide the raw material for natural selection. They explore the latest research showing that what happens during our lifetimes—and even our parents’ and grandparents’ lifetimes—can influence the features of our descendants. Based on this evidence, Bonduriansky and Day develop an extended concept of heredity that upends ideas about how traits can and cannot be transmitted across generations, opening the door to a new understanding of inheritance, evolution, and even human health. --Adapted from publisher description.
Author : William Cecil Dempier Whetman
Publisher : Watson Press
ISBN 13 : 1409704289
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Heredity and Society written by William Cecil Dempier Whetman and published by Watson Press. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Itai Yanai
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674425022
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (744 download)
Download or read book The Society of Genes written by Itai Yanai and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly four decades ago Richard Dawkins published The Selfish Gene, famously reducing humans to “survival machines” whose sole purpose was to preserve “the selfish molecules known as genes.” How these selfish genes work together to construct the organism, however, remained a mystery. Standing atop a wealth of new research, The Society of Genes now provides a vision of how genes cooperate and compete in the struggle for life. Pioneers in the nascent field of systems biology, Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher present a compelling new framework to understand how the human genome evolved and why understanding the interactions among our genes shifts the basic paradigm of modern biology. Contrary to what Dawkins’s popular metaphor seems to imply, the genome is not made of individual genes that focus solely on their own survival. Instead, our genomes comprise a society of genes which, like human societies, is composed of members that form alliances and rivalries. In language accessible to lay readers, The Society of Genes uncovers genetic strategies of cooperation and competition at biological scales ranging from individual cells to entire species. It captures the way the genome works in cancer cells and Neanderthals, in sexual reproduction and the origin of life, always underscoring one critical point: that only by putting the interactions among genes at center stage can we appreciate the logic of life.
