Skip Navigation

Journal of Heredity 2004 95(6):541-542; doi:10.1093/jhered/esh080
This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Benirschke, K.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Benirschke, K.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© 2004 The American Genetic Association

Book Review

The Man Who Invented the Chromosome: A Life of Cyril Darlington

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

Oren Solomon Harman.

Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 2004. 342 pp. $49.95.

If you are interested in why the great Bateson so long denied the existence of inheritance through chromosomes, if you want to know how it was that genetics research moved from England to the United States in the early part of the last century and how early investigators struggled to understand the mechanism through which traits are inherited, then this book is for you. With meticulous research and much attention to detail, Oren Harman traces these early days of genetic research through an exhaustive review of documents that he researched in England. The very dreary life of Darlington's youth, his dour family life and overbearing father, as well as the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Kurt Benirschke

Department of Pathology, UCSD Medical Center, 200 West Arbor Drive, San Diego, CA 92103


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?