Heredity and Human Progress
Author : W. Duncan McKim
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Page : 308 pages
File Size : 22,38 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Capital punishment
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Author : W. Duncan McKim
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 22,38 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Capital punishment
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Author : W Duncan McKim
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,52 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781018351025
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Author : William Duncan McKim
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 16,56 MB
Release : 2017-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780282624989
Excerpt from Heredity and Human Progress Mong the many questions which, in this eager age, press for solution, there is none of deeper interest to the thoughtful and philanthropic mind than that which pertains to the treatment of our defectives and criminals. If we view broadly the evil which these individuals engender, we find 'not only that it thwarts the best purposes of men but that it lies at the very root of all human misery. When we have conceived and put into application a wise solution of this problem, we shall have begun a true rejuvenation of the race. 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.
Author : Jane Maienschein
Publisher :
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 30,29 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Genetics
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Eugenics
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Author : Evelyn Fox KELLER
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 36,19 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 0674039432
In a book that promises to change the way we think and talk about genes and genetic determinism, Evelyn Fox Keller, one of our most gifted historians and philosophers of science, provides a powerful, profound analysis of the achievements of genetics and molecular biology in the twentieth century, the century of the gene. Not just a chronicle of biology’s progress from gene to genome in one hundred years, The Century of the Gene also calls our attention to the surprising ways these advances challenge the familiar picture of the gene most of us still entertain. Keller shows us that the very successes that have stirred our imagination have also radically undermined the primacy of the gene—word and object—as the core explanatory concept of heredity and development. She argues that we need a new vocabulary that includes concepts such as robustness, fidelity, and evolvability. But more than a new vocabulary, a new awareness is absolutely crucial: that understanding the components of a system (be they individual genes, proteins, or even molecules) may tell us little about the interactions among these components. With the Human Genome Project nearing its first and most publicized goal, biologists are coming to realize that they have reached not the end of biology but the beginning of a new era. Indeed, Keller predicts that in the new century we will witness another Cambrian era, this time in new forms of biological thought rather than in new forms of biological life.
Author : Bernd Gausemeier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,13 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Human genetics
ISBN : 9781848934269
This collection of essays looks at how human heredity was understood between 1900 and the late 1970s. Developments are explored across three themed sections: concepts, practices, and institutions.
Author : Francis Galton
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 29,47 MB
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752360186
Reproduction of the original: Inquiries Into Human Faculty and Its Development by Francis Galton
Author : Amir Teicher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 38,19 MB
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 110849949X
Will revolutionize reader's understanding of the principles of modern genetics, Nazi racial policies and the relationship between them.
Author : Siddhartha Mukherjee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 17,93 MB
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1476733538
The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History Now includes an excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee’s new book Song of the Cell! From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick” (Elle). “Sid Mukherjee has the uncanny ability to bring together science, history, and the future in a way that is understandable and riveting, guiding us through both time and the mystery of life itself.” —Ken Burns “Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled readers with his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies in 2010. That achievement was evidently just a warm-up for his virtuoso performance in The Gene: An Intimate History, in which he braids science, history, and memoir into an epic with all the range and biblical thunder of Paradise Lost” (The New York Times). In this biography Mukherjee brings to life the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices. “Mukherjee expresses abstract intellectual ideas through emotional stories…[and] swaddles his medical rigor with rhapsodic tenderness, surprising vulnerability, and occasional flashes of pure poetry” (The Washington Post). Throughout, the story of Mukherjee’s own family—with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness—reminds us of the questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real world. In riveting and dramatic prose, he describes the centuries of research and experimentation—from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Morgan to Crick, Watson and Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human genome. “A fascinating and often sobering history of how humans came to understand the roles of genes in making us who we are—and what our manipulation of those genes might mean for our future” (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel), The Gene is the revelatory and magisterial history of a scientific idea coming to life, the most crucial science of our time, intimately explained by a master. “The Gene is a book we all should read” (USA TODAY).