John Waller

Broschiertes Buch

Heredity

A Very Short Introduction

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

John Waller has taught at University College London and the University of Melbourne, and is currently an associate professor of the history of science and medicine at Michigan State University. He is the author of several books on scientific discovery and social history, including Fabulous Science (OUP, 2002), The Discovery of the Germ (Columbia, 2003), Leaps in the Dark (OUP, 2004), and A Time to Dance, A Time To Die (Icon, 2009). He is currently completing a study of the history of dehumanization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 172mm x 108mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 132g
• ISBN-13: 9780198790457
• ISBN-10: 0198790457
• Artikelnr.: 48023020