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This book examines the wide range of scientific and social arenas in which the concept of inheritance gained relevance in the late nineteenth and early twentiet

Investigations of how the understanding of heredity developed in scientific, medical, agro-industrial, and political contexts of the late nineteenth and early t

Children are often familiar with the idea of heredity from the first time a friend or relative points out they look like a sibling or parent. This book will hel

By focusing on chromosomes, Heredity under the Microscope offers a new history of postwar human genetics. Today chromosomes are understood as macromolecular ass

"In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books