Introduction to genetic analysis
- 800 pages
- 28 hours of reading
The eighth edition of 'An Introduction to Genetic Analysis' has been extensively revised, shaping its coverage to match current research and thinking in genetics.
Richard Lewontin Book order (chronological)
March 29, 1929 – July 4, 2021
An evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and social commentator, this author was instrumental in developing the mathematical foundations of population genetics and evolutionary theory. Their work delves into profound questions about life, evolution, and human nature, with an influence that extends far beyond the scientific realm.
Genetica. Principi di analisi formale - Quinta edizione italiana condotta sulla settima edizione americana
- 960 pages
- 34 hours of reading
It Ain't Necessarily So
The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions
- 368 pages
- 13 hours of reading
It Ain't Necessarily So combines sharp criticism of scientific claims with lucid expositions of the state of current scientific knowledge. Among the subjects discussed are heredity, natural selection, and genetic determinism.
Rejecting the notion that genes determine the organism, which then adapts to the environment, he explains that organisms, influenced in their development by their circumstances, in turn create, modify, and choose the environment in which they live."--BOOK JACKET.
The Cold War & the University
Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years
- 304 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Leading intellectuals discuss the effects of the Cold War on academic freedom, intellectual life, and dissent in the academy.
The Doctrine of DNA
- 144 pages
- 6 hours of reading
This book, the latest in the continuing debate between the genetic reductionists (such as Richard Dawkins, John Maynard Smith and E.O. Wilson) and those who argue for a rather more complex relationship between genes and the environment (such as Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Rose and Niles Eldredge). Lewontin is a forceful writer and this is an effective statement of the case against the selfish gene.
Die Gene sind es nicht ...
- 264 pages
- 10 hours of reading
Menschen
- 185 pages
- 7 hours of reading
Dieser Text stellt die Frage: Sind unsere Persönlichkeiten und Fähigkeiten durch unsere Gene vorbestimmt? Mit den Werkzeugen der Populationsgenetik wird argumentiert, dass biologische Unterschiede nur einen kleinen Teil dessen ausmachen, was Individuen einzigartig macht.
Beschreven wordt welke erfelijke verschillen er tussen mensen kunnen bestaan en welke invloed het milieu uitoefent.
