Author: George HenslowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adaptation (Biology)
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The Heredity of Acquired Characters in Plants
Author: George HenslowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adaptation (Biology)
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
Author: Paul KammererPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5876598097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Heredity
Author: John WallerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198790457
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
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.
The Germ-plasm
Author: August WeismannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genetics
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The Heredity of Acquired Characters
Author: Lucien Claude Marie Julien CuénotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 11
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Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited
Author: William Platt BallPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 146550317X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 87
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Extended Heredity
Author: Russell BondurianskyPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691204144
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
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.
Epigenetic Inheritance and Evolution
Author: Eva JablonkaPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198540625
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Does the inheritance of acquired characteristics play a significant role in evolution? In this book, Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb attempt to answer that question with an original, provocative exploration of the nature and origin of hereditary variations. Starting with a historical account of Lamarck's ideas and the reasons they have fallen in disrepute, the authors go on to challenge the prevailing assumption that all heritable variation is random and the result of variation in DNA base sequences. They also detail recent breakthroughs in our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying inheritance--including several pathways not envisioned by classical population genetics--and argue that these advances need to be more fully incorporated into mainstream evolutionary theory. Throughout, the book offers a new look at the evidence for and against the hereditability of environmentally induced changes, and addresses timely questions about the importance of non-Mendelian inheritance. A glossary and extensive list of references round out the book. Urging a reconsideration of the present DNA-centric view prevalent in the field, Epigentic Inheritance and Evolution will make fascinating and important reading for students and researchers in evolution, genetics, ecology, molecular biology, developmental biology, and the history and philosophy of science.
The inheritance of acquired characteristics
Author: Paul KammererPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heredity
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The Heredity of Acquired Characters in Plants
Author: George HenslowPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330332573
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Excerpt from The Heredity of Acquired Characters in Plants The object of this book is to prove that Evolution - so far as Plants are concerned - depends upon the Inheritance of Acquired Characters. This was Darwin's contention. Dr Weismann and his followers assert that no such characters can ever be hereditary unless the influence of the environment can reach and affect the reproductive organs, or his hypothetical substance "germ-plasm." As all the characters of the vegetative system, or the soma of plants, which are regarded as specific, are acquired long before any reproductive organs exist at all, and therefore before any vegetative cell has begun to assume a reproductive character, Dr Weismann's proviso is inappplicable to plants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.