Treasure your exceptions: the science and life of William Bateson

This is a biography- written in the mode of Abraham Pais’ biography of Einstein: ‘Subtle is the Lord.’ The Science and Life of Albert Einstein. There is one major difference. Whereas the science in Pais’s text was relegated to esoteric small print segments, the authors highlight evolutionary biology as it is at a stage where it can be made intelligible to the educated reader. William Bateson brought the work of Mendel (and much more) to the attention of the English-speaking world. He commanded the biological sciences in the decades after Darwin's death in 1882. He gave twentieth century figures such as J. B. S. Haldane and C. D. Darlington a start in science, and was critical of the emergent Eugenics.  We provide an understanding of Bateson as well as a reconciliation of diverging views (e.g. the hierarchical thinking of Gould and the genocentrism of George Williams and Richard Dawkins). Evolutionists may thus, at long last, present a unified front to their creationist opponents. Written by two ‘card carrying’ bioscientists who, relatively late in their careers, turned to biohistory while remaining at the ‘cutting edge’ of their disciplines. For several decades the Bateson papers languished in the attic of an outhouse at Hancock in New Hampshire, until ‘repatriated’ by Alan Cock in 1975 with the help of Stephen Jay Gould INDICE: Abbreviations. Prologue. Part I. Genesis of a Geneticist. A Cambridge Childhood (1861-1882). From Virginia to the Aral Sea (1883-1889).-Galton. Variation (1890-1894). Romanes. Reorientation and Controversy (1895-1899). What Life May Be. Part II. Mendelism. Rediscovery (1900-1901). Mendel’s Bulldog (1902-1906). Bateson’s Bulldog. 11 On Course (1907-1908). Darwin Centenary (1909). Chromosomes. Part III. The Innes Years. Passages (1910-1914). Eugenics. War (1915-1919). My Respectful Homage (1920-1922). Limits Undetermined (1923-1926). Part IV. Politics. Butler. Pilgrimages. Kammerer. Science and Chauvinism. Degrees for Women. Part V. Eclipse. Bashing. Epilogue. Appendix. Publications of William Bateson. References and Notes. Acknowledgements. Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-387-75687-5
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 745
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés