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Journal of Heredity Advance Access originally published online on October 27, 2009
Journal of Heredity 2009 100(6):808; doi:10.1093/jhered/esp083
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Book Review

In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA

In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA
James Schwartz
Harvard University Press. Cambridge, 2008. 384 pp. Hardback, $29.95, paperback, $17.95. ISBN 978-0-674-02670-1.

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On the surface, this new book by science writer James Schwartz offers readers yet another comprehensive history of classical genetics, beginning with figures such as Charles Darwin and Gregory Mendel, moving on to Hugo de Vries and William Bateson, and culminating with the efforts of Thomas Hunt Morgan and his celebrated "fly group" of researchers. The names are all familiar, as . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis

Departments of Biology and History University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611


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