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The man who invented the chromosome : the life of Cyril Darlington / Oren Solomon Harman.

Born by mistake, or connivance, to struggling parents in a small Lancashire cotton town in 1903, an uninspired Darlington inadvertently escaped the obscurity of farming life and rose instead, against all odds, to become within a few short years the world's greatest expert on chromosomes, and on...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Harman, Oren Solomon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Darlington, C. D. > (Cyril Dean), > 1903-1981.
Geneticists > England > Biography.
Geneticists.
England.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I FROM CHORLEY TO TABRIZ
  • 1. An Improbable Birth
  • 2. A Rising Tide
  • 3. Auspicious Beginnings
  • 4. In Search of Tulips and Truth
  • II SCIENCE
  • 5. From Cytology to Evolution
  • 6. Roots of a Scientific Controversy
  • 7. Method, Discipline, and Character
  • Interlude
  • III POLITICS
  • 8. The Lysenko Mfair
  • 9. Marxism and the Slaying of a Mentor
  • 10. Science in a Changing World
  • IV MAN
  • 11. The Conflict of Science and Society
  • 12. On the Determination of Uncertainty
  • 13. The Breakdown of Classical Genetics
  • 14. On the Uncertainty of Determination
  • 15. One Final Hurrah
  • Conclusion: Paradoxes
  • Notes
  • Index.

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