{"product_id":"disputed-inheritance-the-battle-over-mendel-and-the-future-of-biology-paperback","title":"Disputed Inheritance: The Battle Over Mendel and the Future of Biology - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGregory Radick\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA root-and-branch rethinking of how history has shaped the science of genetics.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1900, almost no one had heard of Gregor Mendel. Ten years later, he was famous as the father of a new science of heredity--genetics. Even today, Mendelian ideas serve as a standard point of entry for learning about genes. The message students receive is plain: the twenty-first century owes an enlightened understanding of how biological inheritance really works to the persistence of an intellectual inheritance that traces back to Mendel's garden. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDisputed Inheritance\u003c\/i\u003e turns that message on its head. As Gregory Radick shows, Mendelian ideas became foundational not because they match reality--little in nature behaves like Mendel's peas--but because, in England in the early years of the twentieth century, a ferocious debate ended as it did. On one side was the Cambridge biologist William Bateson, who, in Mendel's name, wanted biology and society reorganized around the recognition that heredity is destiny. On the other side was the Oxford biologist W. F. R. Weldon, who, admiring Mendel's discoveries in a limited way, thought Bateson's \"Mendelism\" represented a backward step, since it pushed growing knowledge of the modifying role of environments, internal and external, to the margins. Weldon's untimely death in 1906, before he could finish a book setting out his alternative vision, is, Radick suggests, what sealed the Mendelian victory. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bringing together extensive archival research with searching analyses of the nature of science and history, \u003ci\u003eDisputed Inheritance\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the way we think about genetics and its possibilities, past, present, and future.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGregory Radick \u003c\/b\u003eis professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Leeds. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and coauthor, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eDarwin's Argument by Analogy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 576\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.42 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 18, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51777060471072,"sku":"9780226822723","price":64.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/338f59b35a0d42ad5fd55d4cdaae16fe.webp?v=1780491456","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/disputed-inheritance-the-battle-over-mendel-and-the-future-of-biology-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}