Mutation: the History of an Idea from Darwin to Genomics |
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Author:
| Carlson, Elof Axel |
ISBN: | 978-1-936113-30-9 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2011 |
Publisher: | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $75.00 |
Book Description:
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This book shows how generational definitions or assessments of mutation have responded to the technologies added to science and the experiments that abounded with the inquiries of each successive generation. These observations are combined with an exploration of how the nonscientific public has shifted its understanding and concern about mutations over the past 150 or more years. Carlson's historical approach in this book--examining the evolution of a concept--reveals the way science...
More DescriptionThis book shows how generational definitions or assessments of mutation have responded to the technologies added to science and the experiments that abounded with the inquiries of each successive generation. These observations are combined with an exploration of how the nonscientific public has shifted its understanding and concern about mutations over the past 150 or more years. Carlson's historical approach in this book--examining the evolution of a concept--reveals the way science works, incrementally by small steps of additions and replacements rather than by dramatic, and rare, paradigm shifts.