Genetics (Non-medical)

The announcement in 2003 that the Human Genome Project had completed its map of the entire human genome was heralded as a stunning scientific break...

"The Genealogical Science" analyzes the scientific work and social implications of the flourishing field of genetic history. A biological disciplin...

Few people have done as much to change how we view the world as Charles Darwin. Yet On the Origin of Species is more cited than read, and parts of ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

The dramatic explosion of information brought about by recent advances in genetic research brings welcome scientific knowledge. Yet this new knowle...

In this entertaining account of the origins of modern molecular biology, the lives of pioneering scientists in the field of nucleic acid research, ...

Featuring an introduction by Stephen Jay Gould, "Genetics and the Origin of Species" presents the first edition of Dobzhansky's groundbreaking and ...

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"Wright's views about population genetics and evolution are so fundamental and so comprehensive that every serious student must examine these books...

For more than a million years, man's utter dependence on technology has been producing a host of intricate problems. For example, we steadily reduc...

For more than a million years, man's utter dependence on technology has been producing a host of intricate problems. For example, we steadily reduc...

In 1993, an American biotechnology company and a French genetics lab developed a collaborative research plan to search for diabetes genes. But just...

Tracing the development of population genetics through the writings of such luminaries as Darwin, Galton, Pearson, Fisher, Haldane, and Wright, Wil...

Tracing the development of population genetics through the writings of such luminaries as Darwin, Galton, Pearson, Fisher, Haldane, and Wright, Wil...

The common fruit fly, Drosophila, has long been one of the most productive of all laboratory animals. From 1910 to 1940, the centre of Drosophila c...

The Lysenko affair was perhaps the most bizarre chapter in the history of modern science. For thirty years, until 1965, Soviet genetics was dominat...

In this detailed historical and sociological study of the development of scientific ideas, Jonathan Harwood argues that there is no such thing as a...

Technology evolves at a dazzling speed, and nowhere more so than in the field of genetic engineering, where the possibility of directly changing th...

Technology evolves at a dazzling speed, and nowhere more so than in the field of genetic engineering, where the possibility of directly changing th...