Human and Mammalian Cytogenetics An Historical Perspective
The history of science is mostly written retrospec tively, a generation or two after the actual events being discussed. Science historians are now analyzing and evaluating the origins of evolutionary and genetical theory in the nineteenth century and a sort of "Darwin industry" seems to h...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
1979, 1979
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1979 |
| Series: | Heidelberg Science Library
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Knights of the Dark Age
- 3. The Hypotonic Miracle
- 4. From 48 to 46
- 5. The Foundation of Somatic Cell Genetics
- 6. Funny Looking Kids
- 7. Of Beans, Weeds, and Human Cytogenetics
- 8. Sex and the Single Chromosome
- 9. The Denver Conference and Beyond
- 10. The Occasional Lion Tamer
- 11. The Pathologist Who Went Astray
- 12. Anomalous Sex Chromosome Systems
- 13. The Somatic Cell Genetics Conferences
- 14. Mammals for Cytogeneticists
- 15. Old Cultures Never Die?
- 16. The Bandwagon
- 17. In Situ Hybridization: Marriage Between Molecular Biology and Cytology
- 18. Junk DNA and Chromatin?
- 19. The Giemsa Magic
- 20. Parasexual Reproduction
- 21. Interphase Chromosomes
- 22. Cancer Chromosomes
- 23. Chromosomes and Mammalian Phylogeny
- 24. The Future
- Suggested Readings
- References