Charles Chamberlain Hurst

The Mechanism of Creative Evolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1932, this book discusses the capacity of humans to influence the process of natural selection and thereby control its outcomes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 724g
• ISBN-13: 9781107495234
• ISBN-10: 1107495237
• Artikelnr.: 41885587

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. Mendel's laws of heredity
2. Cells and chromosomes
3. Chromosomes and genes
4. Mapping the genes in the chromosomes
5. Chromosomes and species
6. Translocations of genes
7. Extra chromosomes
8. Polyploid varieties
9. Polyploid species
10. Hybridisation and crossing
11. Gene mutations
12. Experimental mutations and transmutations
13. Genes and characters
14. Sex
15. Virgin birth
16. The smallest living organisms
17. The gene as the unit of life
18. Processes of creative evolution
19. Evolution of man and mind
20. Speculations
References
Index.