Human and Mammalian Cytogenetics: An Historical Perspective

by Tao C. Hsu

The history of science is mostly written retrospec- tively, a generation or two after the actual events being discussed. Science historians are now analyzing and evaluating the origins of evolutionary and genetical theory in the nineteenth century and a sort of "Darwin industry" seems to have grown up. A history of mammalian cytogenetics by one of the main participants is, hence, a very welcome change, since it has a vividness, an immediacy and a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 038790364X
• ISBN13: 9780387903644
• Release Date: June 1979
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"