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Disputed Inheritance

The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology

By: Gregory Radick

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Disputed Inheritance

The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology

By: Gregory Radick

A root-and-branch rethinking of how history has shaped the science of genetics. 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. Disputed Inheritance 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. Bringing together extensive archival research with searching analyses of the nature of science and history, Disputed Inheritance challenges the way we think about genetics and its possibilities, past, present, and future.

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Disputed Inheritance

The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology

By: Gregory Radick

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The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology

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Darwin in Ilkley

By: Mike Dixon,Gregory Radick

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Darwin in Ilkley

By: Mike Dixon,Gregory Radick

When the Origins of Species was published on 24 November 1859, its author, Charles Darwin, was near the end of a nine-week stay in the remote Yorkshire village of Ilkley. He had come for the 'water cure' - a regime of cold baths and wet sheets - and for relaxation. But he used his time in Ilkley to shore up support, through extensive correspondence, for the extraordinary theory that the Origin would put before the world: evolution by natural selection. In Darwin in Ilkley, Mike Dixon and Gregory Radick bring to life Victorian Ilkley and the dramas of body and mind that marked Darwin's visit.

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The History Press

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0750952660

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The Simian Tongue

The Long Debate about Animal Language

By: Gregory Radick

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The Simian Tongue

The Long Debate about Animal Language

By: Gregory Radick

Yet for most of the next century, the simian tongue and the means for its study existed at the scientific periphery.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226702243

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Darwin's Argument by Analogy

From Artificial to Natural Selection

By: Roger M. White,M. J. S. Hodge,Gregory Radick

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Darwin's Argument by Analogy

From Artificial to Natural Selection

By: Roger M. White,M. J. S. Hodge,Gregory Radick

In On the Origin of Species (1859), Charles Darwin put forward his theory of natural selection. Conventionally, Darwin's argument for this theory has been understood as based on an analogy with artificial selection. But there has been no consensus on how, exactly, this analogical argument is supposed to work – and some suspicion too that analogical arguments on the whole are embarrassingly weak. Drawing on new insights into the history of analogical argumentation from the ancient Greeks onward, as well as on in-depth studies of Darwin's public and private writings, this book offers an original perspective on Darwin's argument, restoring to view the intellectual traditions which Darwin took for granted in arguing as he did. From this perspective come new appreciations not only of Darwin's argument but of the metaphors based on it, the range of wider traditions the argument touched upon, and its legacies for science after the Origin.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108851657

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The Vegan Evolution

Transforming Diets and Agriculture

By: Gregory F. Tague

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The Vegan Evolution

Transforming Diets and Agriculture

By: Gregory F. Tague

Arguing for a vegan economy, this book explains how we can and should alter our eating habits away from meat and dairy through sociocultural evolution. Using the latest research and ideas about the cultural ecology of food, this book makes the case that through biological and, especially, cultural evolution, the human diet can gravitate away from farmed meat and dairy products. The thrust of the writing demonstrates that because humans are a cultural species, and since we are evolving more culturally than biologically, it stands to reason for health and environmental reasons that we develop a vegan economy. The book shows that for many good reasons we don’t need a diet of meat and dairy and a call is made to legislative leaders, policy makers, and educators to shift away from animal farming and inform people about the advantages of a vegan culture. The bottom line is that we have to start thinking collectively about smarter ways of growing and processing plant foods, not farming animals as food, to generate good consequences for health, the environment, and, therefore, animals. This is an attainable and worthy goal given the mental and physical plasticity of humans through cooperative cultural evolution. This book is essential reading for all interested in veganism, whether for ethical, environmental, or health reasons, and those studying the human diet from a range of disciplines, including cultural evolution, food ecology, animal ethics, food and nutrition, and evolutionary studies.

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Routledge

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100060036X

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Disunited Brotherhoods

...Race, Racketeering and the Fall of the New York Construction Unions

By: Gregory A. Butler

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Disunited Brotherhoods

...Race, Racketeering and the Fall of the New York Construction Unions

By: Gregory A. Butler

Just 40 years ago, the construction unions of New York City were among the most powerful labor organizations in the world. They were also among the most openly racist and sexist, and were thoroughly dominated by organized crime. Today, minority males, and women of any color, can get work in the industry, and the power of gangsters is on the decline. But the fall of racketeering and racism also broke the power of those unions.

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iUniverse

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0595835295

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Pain and Emotion in Modern History

By: Robert Gregory Boddice

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Pain and Emotion in Modern History

By: Robert Gregory Boddice

Drawing on the expertise of historical, literary and philosophical scholarship, practicing physicians, and the medical humanities this is a true interdisciplinary collaboration, styled as a history. It explores pain at the intersection of the living, suffering body, and the discursive cultural webs that entangle it in its specific moment.

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Springer

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1137372435

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Key Contemporary Buildings

Plans, Sections, and Elevations

By: Rob Gregory

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Key Contemporary Buildings

Plans, Sections, and Elevations

By: Rob Gregory

Third in the Key series, this book features 95 buildings of the early twenty-first century ... Each of the buildings is illustrated with one or two full-color photographs and accurate scale floor plans, elevations, and sections, as appropriate.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393732428

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Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives

A How-To-Do-It Manual

By: Gregory S. Hunter

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Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives

A How-To-Do-It Manual

By: Gregory S. Hunter

Since its original publication Hunter's manual has been "not only a rich and ready reference tool but also a practical resource for solving problems" (Catholic Library World), and no text has served as a better overview of the field of archives. Newly revised and updated to more thoroughly address our increasingly digital world, including integration of digital records and audiovisual records into each chapter, it remains the clearest and most comprehensive guide to the discipline. Former editor of American Archivist, the journal of the Society of American Archivists (SAA), Hunter covers such keystone topics as a history of archives, including the roles of historical societies and local history collections in libraries; new sections on community archives, diversity, and inclusion; conducting a survey and starting an archival program; selection, appraisal, acquisition, accessioning, and deaccessioning; important points of copyright, privacy, and ethics; arrangement of archival collections, with a discussion of new theories; description, including DACS, EAD, and tools such as ArchivesSpace; access, reference, and outreach, with a look at how recent innovations in finding aids can help researchers; preservation, including guidance on how to handle rare books, maps, architectural records, and artifacts; digital records, addressing new and popular methods of storage and preservation of email, social media, image files, webpages, Word documents, spreadsheets, databases, and media files; disaster planning, security, and theft prevention; metrics, assessment, establishing employee procedures and policies, working with interns and volunteers, and other managerial duties; public relations and marketing, from social media and the Web to advocacy; and professional guidelines and codes, such as the newly developed SAA Statement of Core Values of Archivists. Providing in-depth coverage of both theory and practice, this manual is essential for archivists at all levels of experience and of all backgrounds.

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083894728X

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Darwin and the Argument by Analogy

From Artificial to Natural Selection

By: Roger M. White,M.J.S. Hodge,Gregory Radick

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Darwin and the Argument by Analogy

From Artificial to Natural Selection

By: Roger M. White,M.J.S. Hodge,Gregory Radick

Sets out an original perspective on Darwin's argument for the theory of natural selection.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108477283

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The Simian Tongue

The Long Debate about Animal Language

By: Gregory Radick

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The Simian Tongue

The Long Debate about Animal Language

By: Gregory Radick

Yet for most of the next century, the simian tongue and the means for its study existed at the scientific periphery.

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Darwin in Ilkley

By: Mike Dixon,Gregory Radick

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Darwin in Ilkley

By: Mike Dixon,Gregory Radick

When the Origins of Species was published on 24 November 1859, its author, Charles Darwin, was near the end of a nine-week stay in the remote Yorkshire village of Ilkley. He had come for the 'water cure'- a regime of cold baths and wet sheets - and for relaxation. But he used his time in Ilkley to shore up support, through extensive correspondence, for the extraordinary theory that the Origin would put before the world: evolution by natural selection. In Darwin in Ilkley, Mike Dixon and Gregory Radick bring to life Victorian Ilkley and the dramas of body and mind that marked Darwin's visit.

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Disputed Inheritance

Disputed Inheritance

Disputed Inheritance

Disputed Inheritance

Darwin in Ilkley

Darwin in Ilkley

The Simian Tongue

The Simian Tongue

Darwin's Argument by Analogy

Darwin's Argument by Analogy

The Vegan Evolution

The Vegan Evolution

Disunited Brotherhoods

Disunited Brotherhoods

Pain and Emotion in Modern History

Pain and Emotion in Modern History

Key Contemporary Buildings

Key Contemporary Buildings

Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives

Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives

Darwin and the Argument by Analogy

Darwin and the Argument by Analogy

The Simian Tongue

The Simian Tongue

Darwin in Ilkley

Darwin in Ilkley

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