Perspectives on Genetics: A Comprehensive Collection of 6 Books

Classic Essays on Heredity, Evolution, Chromosomes, and the Social Meaning of GeneticsBy August Weismann, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Isaac Asimov, Theodosius Dobzhansky, William Bateson, Iva Lowther Peters, Phyllis Blanchard, Melvin M. Knight

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Perspectives on Genetics: A Comprehensive Collection of 6 Books traces genetics from its formative disputes over heredity to its wider intellectual and social consequences. Bringing together scientific exposition, theoretical argument, historical reflection, and socially oriented inquiry, the volume reveals how genetic thought has been articulated through sharply different registers. Foundational discussions of evolution, mutation, inheritance, and chromosome theory stand beside writings that test hereditarian claims against questions of human development and society. Its range makes the collection valuable not merely as a survey of results, but as a record of changing methods, vocabularies, and stakes. The contributors collectively represent crucial strands in the emergence of modern genetics and evolutionary biology. August Weismann, William Bateson, Thomas Hunt Morgan, and Theodosius Dobzhansky evoke the transition from nineteenth-century theories of heredity through Mendelian and chromosomal research to the evolutionary synthesis; Isaac Asimov supplies an accessible scientific-historical perspective. Iva Lowther Peters, Phyllis Blanchard, and Melvin M. Knight broaden the field by situating biological ideas amid educational, psychological, and social debate. Together, these voices illuminate both the explanatory power and the contested cultural uses of genetic knowledge. This volume is recommended for students, historians of science, and general readers seeking a capacious introduction to genetics as an intellectual tradition. Its juxtaposed perspectives invite comparison across disciplines, eras, and styles, fostering a critical dialogue about how heredity has been understood, communicated, and applied.

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1Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems

2THE DURATION OF LIFE.

3I. THE DURATION OF LIFE. (pt. 1)

4I. THE DURATION OF LIFE. (pt. 2)

5ON HEREDITY.

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6II. ON HEREDITY.

7LIFE AND DEATH.

8III. LIFE AND DEATH.

9CONTINUITY OF THE GERM-PLASM, &c.

10CONTINUITY OF THE GERM-PLASM, &c.

11IV. THE CONTINUITY OF THE GERM-PLASM AS THE FOUNDATION OF A THEORY OF HEREDITY. (pt. 1)

12IV. THE CONTINUITY OF THE GERM-PLASM AS THE FOUNDATION OF A THEORY OF HEREDITY. (pt. 2)

13SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUAL REPRODUCTION, ETC.

14SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUAL REPRODUCTION, etc.

15V. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUAL REPRODUCTION IN THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION. (pt. 1)

16V. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUAL REPRODUCTION IN THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION. (pt. 2)

17ON THE NUMBER OF POLAR BODIES AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE IN HEREDITY.

18ON THE NUMBER OF POLAR BODIES, &c.

19VI. ON THE NUMBER OF POLAR BODIES AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE IN HEREDITY.

20VII.

21VIII. THE SUPPOSED TRANSMISSION OF MUTILATIONS.

22Problems of Genetics

23PREFACE

24CHAPTER II

25CHAPTER III

26CHAPTER IV

27CHAPTER VI

28CHAPTER VII

29CHAPTER IX

30CHAPTER X

31Concluding Remarks.

32INDEX OF PERSONS

33Footnote

34The Methods and Scope of Genetics

35PREFATORY NOTE

36Evolution and Adaptation

37PREFACE

38CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM OF ADAPTATION

39CHAPTER II THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION

40CHAPTER III THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION (Continued)

41CHAPTER IV DARWIN’S THEORIES OF ARTIFICIAL AND OF NATURAL SELECTION

42CHAPTER V THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION (Continued)

43CHAPTER VI DARWIN’S THEORY OF SEXUAL SELECTION

44CHAPTER VII THE INHERITANCE OF ACQUIRED CHARACTERS AS A FACTOR INEVOLUTION

45CHAPTER VIII CONTINUOUS AND DISCONTINUOUS VARIATION AND HEREDITY

46CHAPTER IX EVOLUTION AS THE RESULT OF EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL FACTORS

47CHAPTER X THE ORIGIN OF THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF ADAPTATIONS

48CHAPTER XI TROPISMS AND INSTINCTS AS ADAPTATIONS

49CHAPTER XII SEX AS AN ADAPTATION

50CHAPTER XIII SUMMARY AND GENERAL CONCLUSIONS

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