Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500-1870

by Staffan Müller-Wille

The cultural history of heredity: scholars from a range of disciplines discuss the evolution of the concept of heredity, from the Early Modern understanding of the act of "generation" to its later nineteenth-century definition as the transmission of characteristics across generations.

Until the middle of the eighteenth century, the biological makeup of an organism was ascribed to an individual instance of "generation"--involving conception,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262134764
• ISBN13: 9780262134767
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher