![]() ![]() serve as a pragmatic impetus for all scientists to carefully study the history of their respective fields.” (Amitabh Joshi, Journal of Genetics, Vol. It is a splendid addition to the several good historical works on genetics that have appeared in recent years and also serves as a salutary reminder that great ideas in science have a habit of being successively reborn, often in superficially different forms and guises …. … a fascinating read and well worth the effort. “Cock and Forsdyke’s detailed scientific biography of Bateson is very timely. " (Elof Axel Carlson, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. … I recommend reading all 745 pages of this biography. Changes in family structure and its functioning disintegration of. "This volume will be of enormous benefit to historians of science who like to follow how ideas are born or die and why participants of different sides of each controversy held such rigid views of their own work and saw little merit in their competitor’s research. due to interdisciplinary character of psychology that stands on the crossroad od. Donald Forsdyke has now extended and completed the book, a major undertaking for which both geneticists and historians should be grateful." (Peter S. "The presnt book is particularly welcome in helping to fill a significant gap in the history of genetics …. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections." (J. … this interesting work will appeal to biologists and historians of science. ![]() "This work includes key events in Bateson’s career and is strengthened by discussion of the rediscovery of Mendelian principles by early-20th-century geneticists. ![]()
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